[Bug 1120833] Re: Improve Traditional Chinese default input method list in Raring

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi Ma, and thanks for the proposal!

To me personally it doesn't matter much. They all generate those
beautiful characters that I don't understand. ;-)

Have you talked about it with other users who speak traditional Chinese?
I'm asking since we usually try to achieve some level of consensus in
the CJK community about changes like these.

I prepared a branch with your suggested changes, but haven't yet
proposed that they are uploaded.

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

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Title:
  Improve Traditional Chinese default input method list in Raring

Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Let's review default Traditional Chinese input methods in other big OS first.
  https://live.gnome.org/InputCJK/MacOSX/Default
  https://live.gnome.org/InputCJK/Windows/Default

  Also note that Zhuyin = Phonetic, Jianyi = Quick. 
  The common factor is indeed Phonetic, Cangjie, Quick.

  Then let's check our default list for Traditional Chinese, it is ibus-chewing and ibus-table-cangjie.
  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/raring/language-selector/raring/view/head:/data/pkg_depends#L197

  ibus-chewing is indeed a Phonetic input method, we are fine.
  ibus-table-cangjie is a virtual package for ibus-table-cangjie3, ibus-table-cangjie5, ibus-table-cangjie-big.
  Do we need three Cangjie input methods? I guess not.
  cangjie3 and cangjie5 represents two versions of Cangjie scheme, so we need them both at this moment.
  cangjie-big covers wider range of Chinese character; some of them are so rarely used that I've never seen in my life.
  So I guess it should be removed from default install since its audience is limited and some, if not many characters are cannot be rendered by our default Chinese fonts.

  We don't have a Quick input method.
  I guess ibus-quick-classic is the best candidate.
  It resemble Windows Quick input method most; you know, even OS X users may switch to a third-party input method to get Windows-like experience back.

  If the above is TL; DR, my suggestion is that we change the default
  list to ibus-chewing, ibus-table-cangjie3, ibus-table-cangjie5, ibus-
  table-quick-classic.

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