[xubuntu-users] What does IBus do for me? Can I get rid of it?

[Elfy]

On 03/06/14 17:28, Chris Green wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 05:08:54PM +0100, Elfy wrote:
>> On 03/06/14 15:58, som wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 5:33 PM, Elfy <ub.untu at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 03/06/14 12:45, Chris Green wrote:
>>>>> Since I upgraded to xubuntu 14.04 a new icon has appeared in
>>>>> notifications, called IBus.
>>>> Safe to remove. You'd not have seen it on a clean install.
>>>>
>>>> Elfy
>>>>
>>> if chris is talking about the icon visible here (http://imgur.com/733y9OA),
>> then i'd like to differ from Elfy. it is visible even in a fresh install
>> of xubuntu 14.04.
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> som
>>>
>>>
>> then that is a bug - we deliberately ditched it from the seed,
>> because of the issues that Chris Green has come across
>>
> It appeared on *all* my systems when I upgraded to 14.04 so I think it
> possibly is a bug if it wasn't intended.
Is expected in an upgrade.
>
> Can I delete all packages related to IBus, there's quite a few in
> addition to the basic bits that get removed when you remove IBus
> itself. E.g. I still have:-
>      ibus-gtk
>      libibus-1.0-5
>      python-ibus
>

I removed them numerous times

Elfy

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