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by hkmaxpro 1112 days ago
I also know input methods work great on Ubuntu (Gnome Wayland) because Gnome has first-class support for ibus.

But the article is specifically about incompatibility of input methods among different DEs: Gnome, KDE, wlroots-based environments such as Sway and Hyprland.

After many years, ibus still doesn’t work with wlroots, because ibus supports input method protocol v1 and wlroots supports v2: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2182

The list of recommended IMEs on Sway are all WIP: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway#...

There is even v3. Kitty refused to implement v3 because v3 appeared even more unstable: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2814#issuecomment...

The wayland input method protocol is stuck at v1, and DEs/applications disagree about which versions to support. That’s why it’s problematic.
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sterwill 1112 days ago
I'm not disagreeing with any of the technical points in the article. I'm just saying that my experience with Wayland is pretty good. Someone (GNOME? Ubuntu? thousands of generous developers?) is doing all the work to make it work pretty well for me.
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aumerle 1112 days ago
kitty added support for v3 a couple of years ago: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3410
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hkmaxpro 1112 days ago
Good to know. Thanks.
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