Bug#926723: fcitx may not working with Wayland in buster

[Shengjing Zhu]

Package: release-notes
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Follow up my post on -devel. Fcitx, the default input method in
task-chinese-s-desktop(for Simplified Chinese user), may not work on
Wayland. Since Wayland is the default choice of GNOME, the default
desktop, some notes should be added.

However I'm not quite sure about the situation, I Cced Boyuan here.
He probably can have more comments. We talked yesterday, but he is
busy recently. So I just opened this bug, to make sure we'll not forget
before release.

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/fcitx

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[Paul Gevers]

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Hi Shengjing,

Post by Shengjing Zhu
Follow up my post on -devel. Fcitx, the default input method in
task-chinese-s-desktop(for Simplified Chinese user), may not work on
Wayland. Since Wayland is the default choice of GNOME, the default
desktop, some notes should be added.
However I'm not quite sure about the situation, I Cced Boyuan here.
He probably can have more comments. We talked yesterday, but he is
busy recently. So I just opened this bug, to make sure we'll not forget
before release.

I added the text copied below to fix bug 923791. Do you think it is
sufficient to close this bug? Would it help and be enough if I just add
fcitx to the list?

Paul

https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/commit/5496e24

<section id="apps-in-gnome-on-wayland">
<title>Some applications don't work in GNOME on Wayland</title>
<para>
In contrast to Debian releases before buster, <literal>Wayland</literal> is
now the default display manager that is used by
<literal>GNOME</literal>. <literal>GNOME</literal> used to default to
<literal>Xorg</literal> in the past. Some applications, including the
popular package manager <systemitem role="package">synaptic</systemitem>
and most screen recording applications, have not been updated to work
properly under <literal>Wayland</literal>. In order to use these packages,
one needs to login with <literal>GNOME on Xorg</literal>.
</para>
</section>

[Shengjing Zhu]

Hi Paul,

Your message wasn't in my mailbox. I think you should use

Post by Paul Gevers
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Hi Shengjing,

Post by Shengjing Zhu
Follow up my post on -devel. Fcitx, the default input method in
task-chinese-s-desktop(for Simplified Chinese user), may not work on
Wayland. Since Wayland is the default choice of GNOME, the default
desktop, some notes should be added.
However I'm not quite sure about the situation, I Cced Boyuan here.
He probably can have more comments. We talked yesterday, but he is
busy recently. So I just opened this bug, to make sure we'll not forget
before release.

I added the text copied below to fix bug 923791. Do you think it is
sufficient to close this bug? Would it help and be enough if I just add
fcitx to the list?

Yeah, that looks fine.

It could be:

including..., the default Simplified Chinese input method,
<systemitem role="package">fcitx</systemitem>, and ...

Thanks!

Post by Paul Gevers
Paul
https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/commit/5496e24
<section id="apps-in-gnome-on-wayland">
<title>Some applications don't work in GNOME on Wayland</title>
<para>
In contrast to Debian releases before buster, <literal>Wayland</literal> is
now the default display manager that is used by
<literal>GNOME</literal>. <literal>GNOME</literal> used to default to
<literal>Xorg</literal> in the past. Some applications, including the
popular package manager <systemitem role="package">synaptic</systemitem>
and most screen recording applications, have not been updated to work
properly under <literal>Wayland</literal>. In order to use these packages,
one needs to login with <literal>GNOME on Xorg</literal>.
</para>
</section>

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