Bug 2035584 - IBus japanese input method, Anthy, doesn't show suggestions as one types
Summary: IBus japanese input method, Anthy, doesn't show suggestions as one types
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ibus-anthy
Version: 35
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: fujiwara
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-12-24 22:42 UTC by Samuel Bautista
Modified: 2022-01-13 05:22 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-12-27 07:50:38 UTC
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Difference between anthy & mozc (1.29 MB, application/x-matroska)
2021-12-24 22:42 UTC, Samuel Bautista
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Description Samuel Bautista 2021-12-24 22:42:52 UTC
Created attachment 1847739 [details]
Difference between anthy & mozc

Description of problem:
Anthy doesn't show suggestions when typing. IBus-anthy preferences have been kept as default since installed, and the "Candidate Window Page Size" setting has 10, so it should suggest words as one types.

Mozc for IBus, on the other hand, does show candidates as intended.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anthy-unicode-1.0.0.20201109-10.fc35.x86_64
ibus-anthy-python-1.5.13-3.fc35.noarch
ibus-anthy-1.5.13-3.fc35.x86_64
ibus-1.5.25-6.fc35.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable IBus, and anthy in the IBus preferences as input method for Japanese
2. Switch to the Japanese IME then start typing in a window that expects an input

Actual results:
Word suggestions don't appear below typed words, so there's no way to use words with Kanji or Katakana, only Hiragana.

Expected results:
As one begins typing each word, suggestions should start appearing below that can be navigated with the arrow keys and selected with the Intro key

Additional info:
Fedora Linux 35 (Xfce) x86_64
Kernel 5.15.10-200.fc35.x86_64
Xfce 4.16 Xfwm4

Comment 1 fujiwara 2021-12-27 07:50:38 UTC
Use Tab key.

Comment 2 Samuel Bautista 2022-01-07 02:14:33 UTC
I set up ibus-anthy again to check whether the Tab key showed any suggestions, but it didn't.

Please consider reopening this bug. If you need me to do something to help troubleshoot this problem, let me know.

Comment 3 fujiwara 2022-01-08 14:36:29 UTC
ibus-anthy prediction feature is a recording feature.
You have to output the target suggestion before you get the prediction.

Comment 4 Samuel Bautista 2022-01-13 05:22:31 UTC
(In reply to fujiwara from comment #3)
> ibus-anthy prediction feature is a recording feature.
> You have to output the target suggestion before you get the prediction.

Thanks for following up.

Maybe I'm confusing features, so please bear with me. What I want is for ibus-anthy is to convert the words I'm writing in hiragana to its dictionary form(e.g. ふたり > 二人), so the suggestions I'm expecting aren't predictions related to usage, but rather just suggestions to their alternative written form so I can use words with Kanji. Both ibus-anthy and ibus-mozc show these by default, even when it's the first time they're being used (as far as I know); but somehow in my current installation of Fedora, ibus-anthy hasn't showed me any of that so far, so I ended up installing ibus-mozc for the time being.

Hopefully that clears my problem out. Maybe I got the features confused and ended up reporting something that isn't related to my problem.


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