Bug 2015978 - When the Gnome on-screen keyboard is used with ibus input methods, candidates shown should be rendered into buttons
Summary: When the Gnome on-screen keyboard is used with ibus input methods, candidates...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell
Version: 34
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Florian Müllner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-10-20 14:29 UTC by Mike FABIAN
Modified: 2022-06-07 21:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-06-07 21:23:28 UTC
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Video showing the problem at 35 seconds (451.50 KB, video/webm)
2021-10-20 14:29 UTC, Mike FABIAN
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Description Mike FABIAN 2021-10-20 14:29:10 UTC
Created attachment 1835131 [details]
Video showing the problem at 35 seconds

[mfabian@fedora ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 35 (Thirty Five)
[mfabian@fedora ~]$ rpm -q gnome-shell 
gnome-shell-41.0-4.fc35.x86_64
[mfabian@fedora ~]$ rpm -q ibus
ibus-1.5.25-4.fc35.x86_64
[mfabian@fedora ~]$ rpm -q ibus-typing-booster
ibus-typing-booster-2.14.13-1.fc35.noarch
[mfabian@fedora ~]$ 

When ibus-typing-booster is used with the Gnome on-screen keyboard, it is sometimes not possible to see where a candidate starts and where it ends.

See the attached video.

At 35 seconds into the video, and “E” is typed and the candidates shown above the keys of the on-screen keyboard are:

“English text English E EB EC EM”

The first two words, “English text” are actually **one** candidate, but that is not visible. This is very confusing.

Comment 3 Mike FABIAN 2021-10-20 14:40:46 UTC
In the attachment in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2015978#c2 one can see how SwiftKey on Android renders multi-word candidates.

I typed “I” using SwiftKey and got the candidates:

“have”, “have attached”, and “am”.

The multi-word candidate “have attached” is clearly distinguishable as a single candidate because all the candidates are rendered into buttons which look similar to the keys of the virtual keyboard below. 

I think it would be a nice improvement for the Gnome on-screen keyboard to do that in a similar way.

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2022-05-12 15:23:24 UTC
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Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora Linux 34 on 2022-06-07.
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Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2022-06-07 21:23:28 UTC
Fedora Linux 34 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2022-06-07.

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