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, digikam 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 digikam's appimages, otherwise people in the fore-mentioned regions must use Copy-Paste to input their native language. Thank you for your time!
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 432526 ***
Git commit 8698d5431ce3bfef733cd4c1ac6f019c603db5bf by Gilles Caulier. Committed on 31/12/2021 at 23:26. Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'. prepare to add Platform Input Context Qt plugin in bundles Related: bug 432526 M +1 -0 project/bundles/3rdparty/CMakeLists.txt A +24 -0 project/bundles/3rdparty/ext_fcitx-qt/CMakeLists.txt https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/commit/8698d5431ce3bfef733cd4c1ac6f019c603db5bf
Git commit 18a9bd0189ece08132160138e537621b870ba737 by Gilles Caulier. Committed on 01/01/2022 at 09:59. Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'. First try to install Platform Input Context Qt plugin under MacOS Related: bug 432526 M +6 -3 project/bundles/macports/02-build-extralibs.sh https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/commit/18a9bd0189ece08132160138e537621b870ba737
Git commit 1672b7a5fa05e6c0e4489425c260706c3782baec by Gilles Caulier. Committed on 01/01/2022 at 11:17. Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'. FCITX qt plugin is only for Linux AppImage Related: bug 432526 M +2 -0 NEWS M +3 -0 project/bundles/appimage/02-build-extralibs.sh M +0 -3 project/bundles/macports/02-build-extralibs.sh https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/commit/1672b7a5fa05e6c0e4489425c260706c3782baec
Hi Tyson, New digiKam 7.5.0 pre-release AppImage bundle now include the famous Platform Input Context Qt plugin : [gilles@localhost Downloads]$ ./digiKam-7.5.0-20220101T175533-x86-64.appimage -- digiKam Linux AppImage Bundle -- Use 'help' as CLI argument to know all available options for digiKam application. -- Notes: to integrate this bundle to your desktop, use AppImageLauncher. -- to enable all debug messages on the console, use 'export QT_LOGGING_RULES="digikam*=true"'. Check library libudev.so.0 Check library libxcb-dri3.so.0 Check library libcrypto.so.1.1 Check library libssl.so.1.1 -- Preloading shared libs: :/usr/lib64/libxcb-dri3.so.0:/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1:/usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.1 Digikam::DXmlGuiWindow::setupIconTheme: Breeze icons resource file found Digikam::DXmlGuiWindow::setupIconTheme: Breeze-dark icons resource file found Digikam::unloadQtTranslationFiles: Qt standard translations removed: 0 Digikam::loadStdQtTranslationFiles: Qt standard translations path: "/tmp/.mount_digiKafKsuVU/usr/share/digikam/translations" Digikam::loadStdQtTranslationFiles: Loaded Qt standard translations "en_US" from catalog "qt" Digikam::loadStdQtTranslationFiles: Loaded Qt standard translations "en_US" from catalog "qtbase" Digikam::loadStdQtTranslationFiles: Loaded Qt standard translations "en_US" from catalog "qt_help" Digikam::loadStdQtTranslationFiles: Loaded Qt standard translations "en_US" from catalog "qtdeclarative" Digikam::loadStdQtTranslationFiles: Loaded Qt standard translations "en_US" from catalog "qtquickcontrols" Digikam::loadStdQtTranslationFiles: Loaded Qt standard translations "en_US" from catalog "qtquickcontrols2" Digikam::loadStdQtTranslationFiles: Loaded Qt standard translations "en_US" from catalog "qtmultimedia" Digikam::loadStdQtTranslationFiles: Loaded Qt standard translations "en_US" from catalog "qtwebengine" Digikam::loadStdQtTranslationFiles: Loaded Qt standard translations "en_US" from catalog "qtxmlpatterns" Digikam::ApplicationSettings::setApplicationStyle: Switch to widget style: "breeze" Digikam::AlbumWatch::AlbumWatch: AlbumWatch is disabled Digikam::AlbumManager::setDatabase: Database Parameters: Type: "QSQLITE" ... [gilles@localhost platforminputcontexts]$ pwd /tmp/.mount_digiKafKsuVU/usr/plugins/platforminputcontexts [gilles@localhost platforminputcontexts]$ ll total 339 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27152 Jan 1 19:51 libcomposeplatforminputcontextplugin.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 180544 Jan 1 19:51 libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so* <==== !!!!!!!! -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 139432 Jan 1 19:51 libibusplatforminputcontextplugin.so* [gilles@localhost platforminputcontexts]$ [gilles@localhost ~]$ File to test is available at usual place : https://files.kde.org/digikam/ Please test and give us a feedback. Best regards and happy new year Gilles Caulier