Remove Python2 for 18.04?

[flocculant]

Not sure if any of this gnome language stuff is going to cause us issue
like it has in the past. re trusty LTS bug(s)

Never really sure about any gnome statements that it ' only affects us'
things anymore, consequently forwarding to us.

starting to think the same about mainbuntu - don't believe anything
deliberate, but fairly sure they'd not check either.

Kev

* ibus-sunpinyin
Was added 9/2017 [2] as part of moving from fcitx.

Right. Choosing ibus-sunpinyin was not preceded by any deeper
considerations. It was the preferred input method last time Ubuntu's
default IM framework for Simplified Chinese was IBus, and has been
pulled by language-selector (pkg_depends) after that for Ubuntu GNOME.

This package hasn't been updated since 2013.  Previously we've added
it to the desktop session and then removed for ibus-pinyin for size
(and in this case it seems better maintained).

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-desktop/tree/libgnome-desktop/default-input-sources.h
That would speak for replacing ibus-sunpinyin with ibus-libpinyin on
both the live CD and language-selector. But we should probably try to
get opinions from some Chinese users before making this change.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi Kev,

In 17.10 Ubuntu switched from Fcitx to IBus as default IM framework for
CJKV languages because of limitations in the GNOME environment (Wayland,
gnome-shell, gnome-control-center...).

Please note that this change does not affect the flavors at this time.
Fcitx is still the default IM framework for CJKV languages in Xubuntu,
Lubuntu, MATE etc. (and, of course, in Kylin), since Fcitx is still
(AFAIK) considered preferable by affected users in the Ubuntu community.

Rgds,

/ Gunnar

Post by flocculant
Not sure if any of this gnome language stuff is going to cause us issue
like it has in the past. re trusty LTS bug(s)
Never really sure about any gnome statements that it ' only affects us'
things anymore, consequently forwarding to us.
starting to think the same about mainbuntu - don't believe anything
deliberate, but fairly sure they'd not check either.
Kev

* ibus-sunpinyin
Was added 9/2017 [2] as part of moving from fcitx.

Right. Choosing ibus-sunpinyin was not preceded by any deeper
considerations. It was the preferred input method last time Ubuntu's
default IM framework for Simplified Chinese was IBus, and has been
pulled by language-selector (pkg_depends) after that for Ubuntu GNOME.

This package hasn't been updated since 2013.  Previously we've added
it to the desktop session and then removed for ibus-pinyin for size
(and in this case it seems better maintained).

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-desktop/tree/libgnome-desktop/default-input-sources.h
That would speak for replacing ibus-sunpinyin with ibus-libpinyin on
both the live CD and language-selector. But we should probably try to
get opinions from some Chinese users before making this change.