ibus-rime has no indicator icon on taskbar when toggle Chinese / English on Kubuntu 24.04 LTS

[jeremywang19740412]

OS: Kubuntu 24.04 LTS
Window system: KDE X11
Install method: sudo apt-get install ibus-rime
Situation: When toggle Chinese / English there is no indicator icon displayed on the taskbar, but on Win10, it shows an indicator icon with no problem. It looks like the "abc.png" and "zh.png" under "/usr/share/ibus-rime/icons" not get displayed. (it's ibus-rime 1.5.0-5build2)

After I switched to using fcitx5-rime, there is no problem under KDE at all, for others who is interested in using rime under KDE...

[avenarius-argus]

same question and thanks for sharing, fcitx5 indeed worked like a charm

[lotem]

I think there might be some feature gap between KDE and Gnome in terms of ibus integration.

In Gnome shell, the IME status (the first character of the input schema, or "A" for ascii mode) is displayed directly in the system IME indicator.

In traditional ibus UI (without Gnome integration) you can turn on the ibus status bar, and there you would find rime 's status icons.

[lotem]

This might be an issue between ibus and KDE. The ibus-rime engine always annouces its status, but it interfaces with ibus, not directly talking to the desktop environment. So it's ibus not knowing how to display the status in KDE.

There's not much I can do on behalf of ibus-rime.

[jeremywang19740412]

But ibus-libpinyin can display it's status under KDE without problem, it's also ibus under KDE, the same environment...