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

[Michael Hasselmann]

On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 14:01 -0500, 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).

There is no one preventing you from submitting patches.

ciao Michael