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Cannot activate Chinese input method for Qt app

Bug #1634089 reported by XiaoGuo, Liu on 2016-10-17

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Snappy	Fix Released	Medium	Jamie Strandboge

Bug Description

I have a Qt application which needs to input Chinese characters. I have tried to make it work, however, it can only work under "devmode". There is no corresponding plug for use. My project is at:

https://github.com/liu-xiao-guo/rssreader_slim

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote on 2016-11-15:

I tried to reproduce this issue and the command fails to start:

$ rssreader-app.rssreader
/snap/rssreader-app/x1/bin/desktop-launch: line 251: /snap/rssreader-app/x1/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/bin/rssreader: No such file or directory

I tried to find 'rssreader' in the SNAP directory, but it wasn't there. Can you provide a snap or update the snapcraft.yaml so it can be correctly built for testing this issue?

Changed in snappy:
status:	New → Incomplete

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XiaoGuo, Liu (liu-xiao-guo) wrote on 2016-11-15:

rssreader-app_1.0_amd64.snap Edit (101.8 MiB, application/octet-stream)

I think you did not build the snap file successfully. in my place, it is about 102M, and it worked well:

liuxg@liuxg:~/release/rssreader_slim$ ls -alh
total 102M
drwxrwxr-x 8 liuxg liuxg 4.0K 11月 16 07:09 .
drwxrwxr-x 143 liuxg liuxg 12K 11月 16 07:03 ..
drwxrwxr-x 8 liuxg liuxg 4.0K 11月 16 07:03 .git
drwxrwxr-x 5 liuxg liuxg 4.0K 11月 16 07:07 parts
drwxr-xr-x 9 liuxg liuxg 4.0K 11月 16 07:09 prime
-rw-r--r-- 1 liuxg liuxg 102M 11月 16 07:10 rssreader-app_1.0_amd64.snap
drwxrwxr-x 3 liuxg liuxg 4.0K 11月 16 07:03 setup
-rw-rw-r-- 1 liuxg liuxg 2.0K 11月 16 07:03 snapcraft.yaml
drwxrwxr-x 4 liuxg liuxg 4.0K 11月 16 07:03 src
drwxr-xr-x 8 liuxg liuxg 4.0K 11月 16 07:08 stage

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote on 2016-11-16:

Thanks for the snap. I can reproduce this with:

1. Systems Settings Language Support, if prompted install the complete language support
2. Install Chinese (simple and traditional)
3. Select 'fcitx' under 'Keyboard input method system'
4. sudo apt-get install fcitx-pinyin fcitx-sunpinyin fcitx-frontend-gtk
5. logout / login
6. System Settings / Text Entry - add Pinyin (Fcitx)
7. select Pinyin from the indicator
8. launch rssreader-app.rssreader
9. start typing in the search field

Changed in snappy:
assignee:	nobody → Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Incomplete → In Progress

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote on 2016-11-16:

It looks like fcitx has two listeners, one on the fcitx bus and one on the session bus. gtk3 apps use the fcitx bus but qt apps use the session bus.

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote on 2016-11-16:

https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/2287

Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) on 2016-11-18

Changed in snappy:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Michael Vogt (mvo) on 2016-11-30

Changed in snappy:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) on 2016-12-16

no longer affects:

snapd (Ubuntu)

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XiaoGuo, Liu (liu-xiao-guo) wrote on 2017-01-03:

I just retested it on Ubuntu Desktop 16.04:

liuxg@liuxg:~/Downloads$ snap --version
snap 2.20ubuntu1
snapd 2.20ubuntu1
series 16
ubuntu 16.04

The problem still exists, and now it does not work even using the devmode. What could be the problem for it?

Thanks!

Changed in snappy:
status:	Fix Released → New

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote on 2017-01-03:

XiaoGuo, Liu, this bug was fixed with 2.18. It seems that there is a new and different bug that also affects devmode. Can you file a new bug with steps to reproduce? Thanks!