Bug 2395836 - don't combine pinyin Chinese IME and bopomofo Chinese IME into one single package
Summary: don't combine pinyin Chinese IME and bopomofo Chinese IME into one single pac...
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ibus-libpinyin
Version: 43
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peng Wu
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-09-16 16:12 UTC by lutingrong
Modified: 2026-06-10 06:07 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2026-06-09 11:16:27 UTC
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2025-09-16 16:18 UTC, lutingrong
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Description lutingrong 2025-09-16 16:12:18 UTC
Hello the authors of ibus-libpinyin ,

I'm using ibus-libpinyin on fedora 42 . I found ibus-libpinyin provides both pinyin Chinese IME and bopomofo Chinese IME . Could you please consider split ibus-libpinyin into ibus-libpinyin and ibus-libbopomofo ? The reason is that those who use pinyin IME doesn't know bopomofo IME at all , and vice verse those who use bopomofo IME doesn't know pinyin IME neither . So I can install only the package which I use . Why must combine pinyin IME and bopomofo IME into one single package ? Most hope there is no unnecessary codes in their computers . Hope ibus-libpinyin more modularized and more divided ! Thanks for your time and consideration!

Best regards,
Tingrong

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sudo dnf install ibus-libpinyin
2. ibus-setup
3. will see there are both pinyin Chinese IME and bopomofo Chinese IME
Actual Results:
one single package -- ibus-libpinyin provides more than one IME .

Expected Results:
one package provides only one IME .

Comment 1 lutingrong 2025-09-16 16:18:20 UTC
Created attachment 2106794 [details]
screenshot of ibus-setup

screenshot of ibus-setup

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2025-09-18 03:23:50 UTC
I guess most libpinyin users don't need "libbopomofo"
so maybe it makes sense to split the xml file and subpackage bopomofo?

Comment 3 Fedora Release Engineering 2026-05-06 14:07:12 UTC
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Comment 4 Aoife Moloney 2026-06-09 11:16:27 UTC
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