Description of problem: I am using using the Fedora 13 LXDE Spin. My machine is a low specification (old) and my preference is a light-weight OS, and Software (LXDE rocks compared to a bloated Gnome or KDE, in my opinion). I am particularly happy of with the Fedora LXDE Spin, but I need advice. The default Office application of the F13 LXDE Spin are gnumeric & abiword. They are somewhat inseparable as a replacement of a basic OpenOffice installation. If gnumeric perform fine, Abiword suffers a long standing major bug with Asian input. There are already some upstream bug reports. The bug reports date from 2005 and are most of them are not assigned with a status of NEW. Nowadays Asian languages have become more popular and their use have broaden. All the applications I know (Open-office, gedit, gnumeric, etc.), but Abiword, comply homogenously to the older SCIM and newer I-Bus input method. This is not only a bug affecting productivity. This is a bug preventing Abiword being used with an Input method (I-bus). The only alternative I see are installing Openoffice.org (quite heavy on additional libraries) or learning LaTeX. My question is the following: Since upstream bugs are stagnant since 2005, but Abiword is now part of a Fedora Distribution (Lxde Spin). Could the contact between a dev. from redhat or fedora with a dev. of Abiword be easier and straight forward? I am only a end user who has commented on some of the upstream bugs. Some advice in the way to proceed correctly is welcome (as to know what can I expect). Thank you. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Abiword 2.8.6 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a new document 2. Start i-bus input method 3. The Japanese/Chinese/Korean, etc. input appears in a small windows beneath abiword. The input does not display directly inside the open document. You need to push the enter key after each input to display the input in the open document. Actual results: see above Expected results: On-screen display of the input in the open document window (Abiword) Additional info: See upstream bugs: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=AbiWord&content=Japanese http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5801 http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10756
I'm AbiWord's maintainer, so I might be able to get this working. No promisses though, as I have no clue how IMs are supposed to work, let alone how Japanese IMs are supposed to work. Let's take this up at http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10756 , I've added my questions there.
Hello Marc. Thank you for the feedback. I don't think there is much difference between the East Asian languages selected, but more in the way Abiword understand the i-bus framework input. I answer your question on the bugzilla page.
Hello Marc, I have updated the bugzilla.abisource.com with 2 print screens. I also sent a message to the abiword list at destination of msevior, (following jean's recommendation). Do you communicate with each other? They would surely provide a better information. I am only an end-user and my understanding is limited. If you have some free time and if you are still willing looking into this bug, I welcome some feedback. It would be nice to be able to use Abiword with East Asian languages.
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