Bug 908570 - cinnamon keyboard applet: cannot activate IMEs
Summary: cinnamon keyboard applet: cannot activate IMEs
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cinnamon-settings-daemon
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: leigh scott
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-02-07 04:01 UTC by Jens Petersen
Modified: 2015-06-29 11:45 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-06-29 11:45:44 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
cinnamon-ibus-anthy.png (497.11 KB, image/png)
2013-02-07 11:09 UTC, Mike FABIAN
no flags Details

Description Jens Petersen 2013-02-07 04:01:51 UTC
Description of problem:
This might be an issue with the cinnamon keyboard indicator
but it would be nice to get it working with ibus IMEs.
The gnome config is shared and the IMEs are listed (without symbols
rendering) but can't be activated.

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start cinnamon session
2. enable ibus with im-chooser
3. add some IME in ibus-setup or gnome-control-center
   eg Japanese (Anthy) or Chinese (libpinyin)
4. restart desktop to get ibus running fully (seems imsettings not
   working in cinnamon over gnome-settings-daemon)
  
Actual results:
Keyboard applets appears including ibus IMEs
from gnome config but their icon symbols are not
rendered correctly, and IMEs can't be activated
or deactivated from the applet.  They can from
the ibus applet.

Expected results:
IME input source selection to work from the keyboard applet indicator.

Comment 1 Mike FABIAN 2013-02-07 11:09:45 UTC
Created attachment 694402 [details]
cinnamon-ibus-anthy.png

I noticed this problem as well, here is a screenshot.

There is an input method selector thing in the panel which looks
similar to the one in gnome-shell.

But it doesn’t work. As you can see in the picture, I have selected
cangjie3 there, but am actually using ibus-anthy in the gnome-terminal
above. There is a second input-method selector thing in the panel, to
the left of the date, which shows the anthy icon in the above
screenshot. This one actually works.

Comment 2 Akira TAGOH 2013-02-07 11:24:38 UTC
just to clarify:

(In reply to comment #0)
> 4. restart desktop to get ibus running fully (seems imsettings not
>    working in cinnamon over gnome-settings-daemon)

This issue fixed in git: https://bitbucket.org/tagoh/imsettings/commits/ed53d92d60b7fc68e7736de5d27dfd65

You can self-backport it for testing :)

FWIW I did fresh install and see similar issue. the initial setup for the input source for ibus according to the locale works fine but g-s-d seems not bringing up ibus. even though I tried to run ibus manually, b-s-d seems not communicating with it. dunno why. so switcher doesn't take effects at all I suppose.

For a workaround (of this confusion, because ibus itself is working fine with imsettings on Cinnamon - though it would be ideal if g-s-d and ibus works without imsettings on even Cinnamon, but anyway), removing the input sources related to ibus from gnome-control-center simply works, because there are no more input sources on the switcher applet...

Comment 3 Akira TAGOH 2013-02-07 11:27:26 UTC
I've updated imsettings in git to allow NOT_RUN=cinnamon. so everything can go if we can fix this issue.

Comment 4 fujiwara 2013-02-08 01:24:16 UTC
The fallback mode needs to be disabled in cinnamon to enable/disable IMEs.
And it seems the fallback mode was removed in gnome-settings-daemon HEAD.

--- gnome-settings-daemon-3.6.4/plugins/keyboard/gsd-keyboard-manager.c.orig
+++ gnome-settings-daemon-3.6.4/plugins/keyboard/gsd-keyboard-manager.c
@@ -351,7 +351,8 @@ got_session_name (GObject            *ob
 
         g_variant_get (variant, "&s", &session_name);
 
-        if (g_strcmp0 (session_name, "gnome") == 0)
+        if (g_strcmp0 (session_name, "gnome") == 0 ||
+            g_strcmp0 (session_name, "cinnamon") == 0 )
                 manager->priv->session_is_fallback = FALSE;
 
         g_variant_unref (variant);

Transferring to gnome-settings-daemon.

(In reply to comment #0)
> from gnome config but their icon symbols are not
> rendered correctly, and IMEs can't be activated

The renderring issue is caused by cinnamon keyboard/applet.js and please file another bug.

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Comment 6 Jens Petersen 2014-01-08 08:39:25 UTC
I still see problems so moving to cinnamon-settings-daemon and f20.

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