EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.3 released

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 10, 2024,
updated Sep 10, 2024

Significant changes this time. Version 6.2 was released only about 3 weeks ago:

• EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.2 released — August 19, 2024

If you are new to EasyOS, you might find it helpful to read the announcement for 6.0, the start of the 6.x versions:

There are two major improvements in 6.3, relative to 6.2: enhancements for running in icon-free-desktop mode, and builtin ibus input method with Chinese support.

In the initrd, now there is a choice of "zh Chinese" and the desktop and apps are partly translated. Here is a snapshot showing the QuickSetup app, which I translated using MoManager's automatic translation:

...the snapshot also shows the ibus tray app, for selecting different input methods.

Here is the menu:

Read on

Update

More on the day:

• ibus input method packages compiled in OE

  In OpenEmbedded/Yocto, have compiled these:

  ibus
  libpinyin
  ibus-libpinyin
  

  The last two are for Chinese language input using pinyin, both simplified and traditional.

  The intention is that Chinese language support will be builtin to the next release of EasyOS, using ibus. The main reason for choosing ibus is that it is default supported by gnome and Qt5.

• ibus-pinyin compiled

  I posted today about compiling libus-libpinyin' in OpenEmbedded:

  • ibus input method packages compiled in OE — September 09, 2024

  However, ibus-libpinyin and dependencies are rather big. Package 'ibus-pinyin' and dependency 'libpyzy' are considerably smaller, yet look like doing the same job. So, have compiled these in a running EasyOS:

  libpyzy
  ibis-pinyin
  

  These will be builtin to EasyOS 6.3, intending to achieve Chinese language rendering and input support "out of the box". No need to install any extra packages.