[PATCH RFC] Add language and text-direction to text protocol

[Jan Arne Petersen]

On 01.02.2013 13:46, Yichao Yu wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Jan Arne Petersen
> <jpetersen at openismus.com> wrote:
>> On 31.01.2013 23:39, Weng Xuetian wrote:
>>> And, IMHO, those hint should be set in a key-value map, instead of everytime
>>> we add some new API, hence the API would be much more flexible and easier to
>>> be backward compatible. And maybe also reduce IPC round trip between input
>>> method and application.
>>
>> No a key-value map is not really helpful, we would need to add a key
>> specification so that not every toolkit and every input method uses
>> different keys, different types of values etc.
> 
> It will be useful as long as you define some keys you need, language
> and text-direction in this case, just like wl_display::global event,
> although the event may not necessarily sent out directly by the
> compositor.

Why should I reinvent the Wayland protocol on-top of a key-value map and
not just use it as it is?

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Jan Arne Petersen
Openismus GmbH
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