Recently, I subscribed the news feed of ArchWiki (Arch Linux Wiki) New Pages with Feedly. This allows me to know what is new about Arch Linux in some sense. Then, I found this, Rime IME. In Windows, I used Sogou Pinyin Input which is very nice, because it intelligently solve the sentence problem.

In Linux, previously I used IBus input. Due to the buggy upgrade of IBus in Arch Linux previously, then I switched to Fcitx. Fcitx has cleaner interface and configuration. The default Pinyin input method works well. However, the Pinyin using Fcitx or IBus does not work intelligently like Sogou Pinyin. Other than default Pinyin module, I have tried Google Pinyin, Sun Pinyin, libpinyin, and even Sogou Pinyin modules of Fcitx. I can’t really differentiate the advantages or disadvantages between these Pinyin input method, except the configuration interface. Yet, Sogou Pinyin does not work well in my computer.

In my opinion IBus (Intelligent Input Bus) is the most popular input framework for Linux. Previously, SCIM is the most common input framework. This is because Ubuntu uses IBus as its default input framework currently.

There are two Chinese pinyin input for IBus, one is ibus-pinyin, another is ibus-sunpinyin. I prefer ibus-pinyin, since it is more common, and support the Traditional Chinese character; sunpinyin does not.

But today, I found another input method, that is libgooglepinyin, it is a fork from Google Pinyin for Android. Whoever uses Google Pinyin before should know that it is faster than a normal pinyin method, it works like Sogou Pinyin. It is available for Arch Linux using AUR. Super good.