Bug 435901

Summary:	Package fcitx support for Kate's appimage
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Tyson Tan <tysontanx>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	christoph, nate, uwu, vonreth
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	Git
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Appimage
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Tyson Tan 2021-04-19 02:29:50 UTC

fcitx is a widely used helper application to enable non-English character input. It's basically a must-have for Linux users in Asian regions like China/Japan/Korea/India. 

At this moment, Kate from a distro's official repo can use fcitx without issue, but it doesn't work inside our official appimages. A small Qt plugin must be packaged in order to utilize the system's input source.

Either of the following plugins would work:
fcitx-qt5 (old fcitx)
https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx-qt5
OR
fcitx5-qt (new fcitx)
https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5-qt

We've figured it out in Krita's appimage packaging:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422465
(See Comment 4 by Weng Xuetian and Halla's commits in Comment 6, 7, 12)

It would be nice to have fcitx support packaged in Kate's appimages, otherwise people in the fore-mentioned regions must use Copy-Paste to input their native language.

Thank you for your time!

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2021-04-19 08:00:27 UTC

Hi,

good point, I think we miss this as dependency in the craft blueprints.