Create wrapper package for fcitx with plugins. #4839
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This creates a wrapper package for fcitx so that plugins can be enabled by the user. This is based on the wrapper package for pidgin-with-plugins. By using this wrapper instead of the fcitx package itself, it will be possible for the user to enable/disable plugins.
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Making a wrapper package like this was recommended by Damien on the mailing list: http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2014-October/014801.html |
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| fcitx-with-plugins = callPackage ../tools/inputmethods/fcitx/wrapper.nix { | |||
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How about including a set of plugins that make sense for most people? Or is that indeed the null set? 😄
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@wmertens, I believe it is the null set.
Most of fcitx's plugins enable communication with additional IME libraries. The only plugin currently available is anthy, which enables Japanese input.
There are a couple other commonly used Japanese input plugins, but there are not packages for them yet in Nix. In most cases, it wouldn't really make sense to use them together.
I believe there are also other commonly used plugins for Korean and Chinese, but it also wouldn't make sense to use these plugins together (unless you speak Korean, Chinese, Japanese, etc).
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Alright, I like it. |
Create wrapper package for fcitx with plugins.
This creates a wrapper package for fcitx so that plugins can be enabled by the user. This is based on the wrapper package for pidgin-with-plugins.
By using this wrapper instead of the fcitx package itself, it will be possible for the user to enable/disable plugins.
This is an improvement over #4713 that just makes a wrapper package with the plugins instead of creating an entire new package that must be compiled. This also closes the issue #4550.