Hi,

things you need to do:

1. install an IM daemon, e.g. ibus or fcitx
2. make sure it autostarts
3. install an input method plugin for Japanese
4. configure the IM daemon to have that plugin active
5. make sure toolkit plugins for the IM daemon are installed (e.g. the qt5 plugin for ibus comes bundled with qt, for fcitx it's a separate install)
6. make sure toolkits know to load this plugin (e.g. the QT_IM_MODULE variable)
7. add the Input Method Panel widget to your panel pt use a different frontend (ibus and fcitx also bundle their own ones respectively)

#4 is key, when using a IM daemon the keyboard layout KCM turns useless.

Background: https://youtu.be/wE0KDabPfsQ

We're working on having IM config in System Settings. There was a GSoC project last year and work will hopefully resume soon.


Cheers,
Eike

On January 23, 2019 6:39:57 PM GMT+09:00, Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan <ovidiu.b13@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all,

 

I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I've been struggling to get Japanese input on my system for two days and got nowhere.

 

My system is a Fedora 29 KDE edition.

Plasma version: 5.14.4

Frameworks version: 5.53.0

Qt version: 5.11.3

Arch: x86_64

 

I've tried most of the things I found online, but most of them are at least 5 years old info.

 

I've installed fcitx but whenever I activate it nothing happens.

I've tried adding the Japanese keyboard layout, and each variant of that, and I can only get Katakana on one of the variants.

 

I wanted to send an email to the KDE Japan email list, but I looked through it's archive and I only see spam in the last couple of months, which led me to believe that the email list is dead.

 

Please advise,

 

Regards,

Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN


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