[PATCH 00/13] Clean up text protocol and move to wayland
Yichao Yu
yyc1992 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 11:26:55 PST 2013
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Michael Hasselmann
<michaelh at openismus.com> wrote:
> 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.
I know what a full function CJK input method need but not really
familiar with wayland internals..........
>
> ciao Michael
>
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