ibus-gokien - Vietnamese input method engine for IBus

Currently only support TELEX. Please open an issue/PR if you're interested at other input methods like VNI.

Install and test with log

just sudo=yes profile=release install

To run debug version:

just run debug
# in another terminal
ibus engine gokien

Other useful commands:

ibus read-config
env DCONF_PROFILE=ibus dconf read /desktop/ibus/general/preload-engines
ibus-setup
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources

Known bugs

N/A.

Unsupported/Hard features

• surrounding_text: sometimes work in firefox textbox

• emulate fake backspace: ibus_engine_forward_key_event won't implement. IBus is too buggy and warn people about this.

  BoGoEngine/ibus-bogo#216

• Fcitx https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5-unikey

  • too MUCH c++. no c api. Rust can use cxx crate but no thanks.
  • https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Develop_an_simple_input_method
  • https://codedocs.xyz/fcitx/fcitx5/group__FcitxCore.html
  • apt download fcitx-core-dev
  • can view source of fcitx5-bamboo and fcitx-unikey for API usage