[PATCH 00/13] Clean up text protocol and move to wayland

[Jan Arne Petersen]

On 19.02.2013 22:31, Pekka Vuorela wrote:
> On 19.02.2013 22:11, Jan Arne Petersen wrote:
>> On 19.02.2013 20:01, Yichao Yu wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Jan Arne Petersen
>>> <jpetersen at openismus.com> wrote:
>>>> From: Jan Arne Petersen <jpetersen at openismus.com>
>>>>
>>>> This series finalizes the first version of the text protocol and
>>>> moves it from Weston to Wayland, so that it can be implemented in
>>>> toolkits.
>>>
>>> Well, the only problem is that this protocol is totally not usable yet
>>> and it lacks every single feature a non-layout input method needs.
>>> Apart from what I have already mentioned ((more important ones first)
>>> tracking input context, cursor following, getting information about
>>> im-clients (pid, appname, context), and not really sure about having
>>> multiple processes drawing the user interface) there is one more
>>> feature that is missing. Is it possible for the im-client to send a
>>> key event that is not previously handled by the input method back to
>>> text_model (or is wl_text_input the new name...)? At least I haven't
>>> found a request on the im-client to send this out... This is really
>>> useful when the text model only get input focus after certain key
>>> event (see pidgin input window as an example).
>>
>> With this series we try to get the text protocol into Wayland (so it can
>> be supported by toolkits). The input-method protocol for input methods
>> is not ready yet and will be included into Wayland later (when it will
>> be ready).
> 
> Could perhaps clarify what this means protocol stability-wise. Intention
> to merge into Wayland master, but allowed to still be modified until
> 1.1(?) is released, or to be stable already when reaching Wayland?

I would prefer that we have version 1 of the text_input stable when
reaching Wayland. But more requests/events can just be put in the next
version of that interface, which we could include in Wayland 1.2.

-- 
Jan Arne Petersen
Openismus GmbH
http://www.openismus.com