<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68)">> Rather than this new config option, I would be much happier seeing the<br>
> shell plugin directly indicating whether it supports input methods or<br>
> not.<br><br>I'm not too sure about this, but I think the text backend has to be<br>initialized first so I don't know how it can be launched or configured<br>from the shell plugin.<br><br>> If you add a config option like this, then the user must somehow know,<br>
> that when using this particular plugin, he should set this other config<br>
> option too. That seems cumbersome, because the plugin itself certainly<br>
> knows if it supports an input method or not. Why should the user be<br>
> second-guessing the plugin?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68)">The way I stopped the user having to specify the config option was by<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68)">shipping a "my-cool-plugin.ini" file which had all the neccessary<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68)">options(shell .so file, disabling features that dont work and<br>extra plugin-specific config options). Then the user can just<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68)">type 'weston --config=my-cool-plugin.ini' and everything is taken care of.<br><br>> If you really need a config option, how about setting [input-method]<br>
> "path" explicitly to empty to disable loading the input method client?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68)">I'm not sure if you mean change it so that it doesent try to launch the<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68)">input method if path is empty, but currently it will try and fail even<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68)">if the path is empty.<br><br>> Rather than this new config option, I would be much happier seeing the<br>
> shell plugin directly indicating whether it supports input methods or<br>
> not.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68)">I completely agree, but I have no idea how this can be done.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Thank you.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Murray<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><br></div></div>