ibus input method packages compiled in OE

In OpenEmbedded/Yocto, have compiled these:

ibus
libpinyin
ibus-libpinyin

The last two are for Chinese language input using pinyin, both simplified and traditional.

The intention is that Chinese language support will be builtin to the next release of EasyOS, using ibus. The main reason for choosing ibus is that it is default supported by gnome and Qt5.

Note, already posted about display of Chinese text now builtin:

• DroidSansFallback TrueType font — September 06, 2024

Here are the recent OE github commits:

https://github.com/bkauler/oe-qky-scarthgap/commits/bfc6bbd0d0ea66137044b0bf943aece835f6a619/

Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Input_Bus

Arch Linux wiki page:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IBus   

Tags: easy