[bug#44354] [PATCH] gnu: gnome-deskop-service-type: Set GUIX_GTK*_IM_MODULE_FILE.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 04.05.2021, 09:46 +0200 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:
> > Hi Leo,
> >
> > I haven’t been able to get ibus-libpinyin to work even when 
> > these 
> > variables are set.  I know that these variables used to work 
> > once.
> "Used to work" in what sense?  Did ibus-libpinyin work for you 
> or
> someone else with these variables set and now it's no longer 
> working?

Yes.

IIRC I patched GTK back in the day to respect these extra 
variables.  I did that because that made things work.  This 
predates at least two upgrades to Gnome and the decision on 
Gnome’s part to “integrate” ibus more tightly; I don’t know 
exactly when things broke because all I know is that when I 
returned to Guix after a months-long hiatus things no longer 
worked.

> > I don’t know if setting them is the correct thing to do for 
> > Gnome. 
> > This patch would also only work for system-wide installations 
> > of 
> > input methods.  Input methods that have been installed in a 
> > user 
> > profile would not be part of the cache files.
> I'm not sure we can expect things to "just work" with ibus in 
> the user
> profile.  As far as I'm aware, we don't expect GDM to find the 
> user's
> custom gnome installation without some hacking on their part, so 
> I
> don't understand why we would expect GNOME to find ibus in a 
> similar
> setup.

Because it worked just like that before.

Ibus should be a user process with user configuration.  This is 
not inherently global, so only making it work with globally 
installed input methods is a restriction that I think we should 
aim to do without.

--
Ricardo