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1.5.29-rc2 was tagged on 9 Nov 2023 [1] and, as an example, did not contain "N_("CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I")," in src/ibusunicodegen.h [2]. Commit 228f0a77b2047ade54e132bab69c0c03f0f41aae from 28 Feb 2023 introduced this change instead. It's the same person who tagged 1.5.29-rc2 and committed 228f0a77b2047ade54e132bab69c0c03f0f41aae which is typically an indication the maintainer tar'd their checked out git folder and accidentally included changes not get committed. The question raised is whether anyone is auditing these differences before the checksummed tarballs are added to package repositories. [1] https://github.com/ibus/ibus/releases/tag/1.5.29-rc2 [2] https://github.com/ibus/ibus/blob/0ad8e77bd36545974ad8acd0a5... [3] https://github.com/ibus/ibus/commit/228f0a77b2047ade54e132ba...

I also know input methods work great on Ubuntu (Gnome Wayland) because Gnome has first-class support for ibus. But the article is specifically about incompatibility of input methods among different DEs: Gnome, KDE, wlroots-based environments such as Sway and Hyprland. After many years, ibus still doesn’t work with wlroots, because ibus supports input method protocol v1 and wlroots supports v2: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2182 The list of recommended IMEs on Sway are all WIP: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway#... There is even v3. Kitty refused to implement v3 because v3 appeared even more unstable: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2814#issuecomment... The wayland input method protocol is stuck at v1, and DEs/applications disagree about which versions to support. That’s why it’s problematic.

I wrote myself a small plugin for Sublime Text that allows me to enter common math symbols as unicode characters by virtue of a selection popup. So, for instance, I hit Ctrl+m, type "subs" (for subset – it does fuzzy matching), hit enter et voilà, I get "⊂". Finally, math in LaTeX is no longer a pain to read! While it works very nicely, it's of course unavailable outside Sublime, so I've been looking for alternatives and came across the following projects: https://github.com/ibus/ibus (example: https://github.com/sphaerophoria/ibus-memebox) https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji/ Hopefully at some point I'll find the time to adapt them to my purposes.