Bug 82907

Summary: Fcitx only over-the-top input with KDE integration
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: hans.schmidt.5
Component: UIAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: UNCONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.3.0.4 release   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description hans.schmidt.5 2014-08-21 12:25:25 UTC 
When using Libreoffice KDE integration on Arch (other distributions have the same problem), Fcitx (an input method for East Asian scripts) only displays over-the-top input. This makes it very hard to write longer sentences because the pre-commit string does not fit into the actual written text. Especially in a word processor this is extremely hard to use.

Here is a OpenSUSE forum entry which describes the problem with screenshots:
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/485635-fcitx-mozc-and-Libreoffice

A workaround is to use libreoffice-gnome integration, but this does not integrate so well into KDE.

Is there any hope that this will be fixed? From what I understand from the OpenSUSE thread, Libreoffice should use QT_IM_MODULE when using the KDE integration. Or at least GTK_IM_MODULE, even if KDE integration is used. But _not_ XIM. Maybe Libreoffice should even use that without the gnome/kde integration.

I think this problem is also apparant with Ibus, Scim and other frameworks, because the problem does not seem to lie with Fcitx.

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