[needs-packaging] kimpanel

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This is an essential for me... any way to help prioritize the wishlist? My inability to type foreign languages due to issues with SKIM is killing me!

I agree that this should be packaged. Chinese/Japanese/Korean input has always been a clusterfuck in Kubuntu, and it has become worse since KDE 4 was adopted. Kimpanel is finally an IME which is perfectly integrated in the desktop environment. Its a proper plasmoid that can exist either inside a panel or outside, and will work nicely with all applications.

It would be extremely useful for users in these countries if this was packaged in Karmic. And by the way, we are talking about a target demographics that encompasses roughly 1/3 of the world, so that's hardly a niche.

Or if you can't or aren't willing to package this essential plasmoid, could you please explain to me how to compile and install it (and other plasmoids) under ubuntu? A simple pointer to a tutorial for that would be nice, I've never really managed to figure out how to build it myself.

I'd like to add, if this helps, that there is already a few packages available from different source:

Ubuntu (Jaunty and Karmic PPA): https://launchpad.net/~zhengpeng-hou/+archive/ppa
OpenSUSE: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/swyear:/kimpanel/openSUSE_Factory/
Arch Linux: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24652

Are those of any help to create an official package for Karmic?

Just as information for the other people subscribed to this request which are not developers, progress is ongoing and can be tracked here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionReportPlasmaWidgetKimpanel
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-widget-kimpanel/+bug/418688

Just a quick question, does the fact that the MIR report changed to "fix-committed" mean that plasma-widget-kimpanel is now available in the karmic repository?

Anyway, thank you very much for giving this package this much attention, now my wife will be able to go back to using kubuntu :-)

On 9.04_64 with KDE 4.3.1 after upgrading gcc-4.4-base, libcc1_4.4.1, libstdc++6_4.4.1, libscim8c2a_1.4.9 when I attempt to install plasma-widget-kimpanel_0.0+svn1015443-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb both GDebi and dpkg (from command line) generate the same error: "Trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libkimpanelruntime.so.0', which is also in package kimpanel lzma: Decoder error

When I delete this (and all other Kimpanel files in /usr/lib) and run again I get the same error.

Can't reproduce here.