F44 Change Proposal: IBus 1.5.34 [SelfContained]

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IBus 1.5.34

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This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
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Summary :open_book:

IBus 1.5.34 will update some the Wayland and Emoji features.

Owner :open_book:

  • Name: [[User:Fujiwara|Takao Fujiwara]]
  • Email: fujiwara [at] redhat [dot] com

Detailed Description :open_book:

  • IBus now will support the deleting surrounding text feature with the Wayland input-method protocols.
  • IBus now will support the pre-edit semantic values for the Wayland input-method protocols (already in 1.5.33).
  • IBus now shows some annotations in the Emoji lookup table.

Feedback :open_book:

Benefit to Fedora :open_book:

This change will provide the input-method features in some Wayland desktop environments likes KDE, Sway, Hyprland, COSMIC desktop environments and show users some information of Emoji. (GNOME does not use the Wayland input-method protocol.)

Scope :open_book:

  • Proposal owners: ibus 1.5.34
  • Other developers:
  • Release engineering: [Making sure you're not a bot! #Releng issue number]
  • Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
  • Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
  • Alignment with the Fedora Strategy:

Upgrade/compatibility impact :open_book:

Early Testing (Optional) :open_book:

Do you require ‘QA Blueprint’ support? Y/N

How To Test :open_book:

=== IBus pre-edit colors ===

  1. Log into Plasma Wayland desktop session

  2. Run ibus-setup and enable ibus-anthy

  3. Run systemsettings and select “Colors & Themes” → Colors and enable a theme with a different selection color

  4. Show a pre-edit text with ibus-anthy engine

=== Emoji annotation information on IBus candidate popup ===

  1. Press Super-period shortcut key and type some emoji annotation and space key x 2

User Experience :open_book:

This will provides more color selections with the desktop configurations and users can identify Emoji characters with the annotation information.

Dependencies :open_book:

No

Contingency Plan :open_book:

  • Contingency mechanism: Revert the change to ibus.
  • Contingency deadline: Beta release
  • Blocks release?
    No

Documentation :open_book:

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes :open_book:

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This change proposal has now been submitted to FESCo with ticket #3551 for voting.

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This change has been approved by FESCo and will be included in Fedora Linux 44.
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