RStudio marry 搜狗拼音输入法
From above 1.2.5001, one can just try the first method in Development, the only flaw is the square when you type Pinyin.
1 Begining
Ubuntu 不愧是 Linux 的亲儿子 1，连搜狗拼音输入法都有得用。
但一件很尴尬的事情是，我最喜欢的 IDE，RStudio，不支持搜狗拼音输入法。我曾在爆栈网 2 搜过一次，结果最好的结局方法貌似是 用 RStudio Server 来代替 3，真让人无语。
But today, I manage to use 搜狗拼音输入法 in RStudio, after exploring for half a day.
2 Development
Thanks to this post, I know the reason is that libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so is missing. I use apt-file find and find fcitx-frontend-qt5 provides that .so. But 搜狗拼音输入法 still doesn’t work.
Then I found another post, which helped me build fcitx-qt5 from source:
sudo apt install cmake extra-cmake-modules fcitx-libs-dev
# the critical step, you have to install Qt
export PATH="/path/to/Qt/5.10.1/gcc_64/bin:$PATH"After that, I get a libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so, and this .so did help enabled 搜狗拼音输入法 in Qt Creator.
3 Climax
Motivated by aboving result, I figured out that RStudio 1.1.142 use Qt 5.4.2.
Finally, I built libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so using Qt 5.4.2 and fixed the problem 4.
By the way, the Qt Maintenance Tool is really clumsy, you’d better uninstall & install if you want to add modules.
4 Epilogue
写于 2019-02-28：可惜我没有把详细过程记下来，后来我一直用着编译好的 .so，到目前为止都没什么问题。等到以后版本不兼容的时候，重新 build 估计又要花一些时间。