Request option to disable popup toolbar when using direct input

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Mozc's popup toolbar is incredibly useful when typing Japanese. (Thank you for 
all the great work that has gone into making this software, by the way.) But 
when using direct input, I find the toolbar a distraction. When I use direct 
input, I just want to type in English, and that doesn't require input 
suggestions, or any changes in settings. Could you add an option to disable 
display of the popup toolbar when direct input is selected?

What is the expected output?

Nothing.

What do you see instead?

When Mozc is enabled, and set to direct input, clicking on a text entry area 
pops up a toolbar with two buttons, "A" and a spanner icon.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Mozc 1.13.1651.102 on Ubuntu 14.04.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by j.w.tayl...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2014 at 1:48

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Thank you for the report but let me close this issue as ExternalDependency 
because the toolbar (see the screenshot named popup-toolbar.png) is a 
functionality of IBus, not Mozc.  For instance, you could see the same toolbar 
even if you were using IBus-anthy.  As another example, you can disable the 
toolber via ibus-setup command (see the screenshot named ibus-setup.png), 
rather than Mozc's config dialog.

Actually that IBus feature was implemented in IBus after some discussion in 
their issue tracker.
- IBus Issue 1659: ibus-ui-gtk3 should show local modes of active engines as 
GNOME does
  https://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=1659

This means that we need to change the IBus itself if we want to change the 
behavior of the pop-up toolbar.

Thanks again for reporting this. I hope your annoyance in IBus will be resolved 
soon.

Original comment by yukawa@google.com on 14 Jun 2014 at 2:50

• Changed state: ExternalDependency
• Added labels: OpSys-Linux, Type-Defect
• Removed labels: Type-Enhancement

Attachments:

• popup-toolber.png
• ibus-setup.png

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Thank you for the very helpful reply!

Original comment by j.w.tayl...@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2014 at 3:46