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

Michael Hasselmann michaelh at openismus.com
Tue Feb 19 20:10:35 PST 2013


On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 23:31 +0200, Pekka Vuorela wrote:
> On 19.02.2013 22:11, Jan Arne Petersen wrote:
> > With this series we try to get the text protocol into Wayland (so it can
> > be supported by toolkits). The input-method protocol for input methods
> > is not ready yet and will be included into Wayland later (when it will
> > be ready).
> 
> Could perhaps clarify what this means protocol stability-wise. Intention 
> to merge into Wayland master, but allowed to still be modified until 
> 1.1(?) is released, or to be stable already when reaching Wayland?

At least new API should be no problem. Which API you feel might change
still? For instance, I don't believe that the input_panel_surface
interface is complete yet.

> I do share some concerns with Yichao since this hasn't yet been taken 
> into use with a basic CJK setup. Every single feature part, of course, 
> being still huge exaggeration.

Not quite, in Weston's repository, there is clients/weston-simple-im.c
at least. And Jan Arne is currently looking at ibus integration, too.

ciao Michael



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