Fcitx 5 first release is in 2020\/11\/2, and as of today, we have reached the 13th release of Fcitx 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What happened to Fcitx 5 within this whole year of development?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Best Wayland support on Linux<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As of today, to my knowledge, Fcitx 5 is the only input method frameworks under Linux that works under all different types of wayland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have been testing KDE\/GNOME\/Sway (Only causally played with wayfire and since there are too many wlroots based around we can’t do much test there.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. New engines<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the end of year we have two new engines https:\/\/keyman.com\/ and https:\/\/github.com\/OpenBangla\/OpenBangla-Keyboard . <\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. Flatpak support<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not only flatpak support fcitx5, but fcitx5 also works as a flatpak package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/fcitx-im.org\/wiki\/Install_Fcitx_5#Install_Fcitx_5_from_Flatpak<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. New features comparing to Fcitx 4 counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We really got tons of them new features, e.g.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Android support<\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn’t develop this, only provides some Q\/A on the details, and add some support to make it build\/work on android more easily. https:\/\/github.com\/rocka\/fcitx5-android-poc\/<\/a> It’s still considered as highly experimental, please use it with caution. One of our next target is to come up with a new API for implementing virtual keyboard, which will also benefit the native linux on screen keyboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are still using Fcitx 4, please consider give Fcitx 5 a try. You can find the distribution that packages fcitx5 via https:\/\/pkgs.org\/search\/?q=fcitx5<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fcitx 5 first release is in 2020\/11\/2, and as of today, we have reached the 13th release of Fcitx 5. What happened to Fcitx 5 within this whole year of development? 1. Best Wayland support on Linux As of today, … Continue reading