[immodule-qt] Re: Re: A "deadline" for development?

[Lars Knoll]

On Wednesday 11 August 2004 13:11, YamaKen wrote:
> Hi Lars, thank you for responding.
>
> At Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:47:03 +0200,
>
> lars at trolltech.com wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 19:11, YamaKen wrote:
> > > Hi all, here is the updated TODO list. I'll release new patches
> > > once discussions have been finished.
> > >
> > > ** under discussion
> > > - introduce pluggable IM-switcher and QT_IM_SWITCHER environment
> > >   variable (waiting for Lars, Takumi, Daisuke)
> >
> > I'm still not 100% convinced that the IM switcher should use the same
> > interface than the the IM plugins, but I see the need to make the
> > switcher a plugin. So let's try to use the same interface for the
> > switcher and the IM plugins for now and see how it works out.
>
> Okay. I regard current switcher architecture as
> preview. We'll have more discussions for it until official
> Qt4 release.

Sounds good :)

> > > ** Qt4 TODOs
> > > - import official Qt4 trees into our repository
> > > - the porting
> >
> > I could help doing this part and adapting the code to Qt 4 coding style.
> > A simple port of the latest -ALL patch should not take me more than a day
> > or two.
>
> Do you like directly working with our repository? It sounds
> good. But even if so, please give us a opportunity to port our
> code into Qt4 by ourselves to experiment actual Qt4 codes. I'll
> immediately start the porting after next patch release. Give us
> two days for the porting.

I can work together with you in your repository. I have a lot of experience of 
porting Qt 3 code over to Qt 4, so I could do the initial port rather fast. 
But if you like to do it yourself, feel free. 

> > > ** after Qt4 porting
> > > - introduce dynamic X Compose table parser to QSimpleInputContext
> >
> > I don't think that is something we want. There was a thread on the xorg
> > mailing list lately, where people want to get rid of parsing the tables
> > at every application startup. See
> > http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2004-August/002235.html
>
> I'll look it later.

Yes, it's not urgent at all :)

Regards,
Lars