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

[Yichao Yu]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Jan Arne Petersen
<jpetersen at openismus.com> wrote:
> From: Jan Arne Petersen <jpetersen at openismus.com>
>
> The proposed API allows to send the language and text-direction for
> inserted text from an input-method to an application.

Can't really see why text-direction (of the input window) is useful,
shouldn't that be a property of the language?

>
> It also allows an application to specify a preferred language for
> the input. This could be used by an application to set a language
> by context or to request the last used language after an input
> entry regains focus.

I believe the input method have better knowledge of the language in
use and being able to remember that on a per context state? (or do you
mean the context will be destroyed when the text_model lost focus??)

>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Jan Arne Petersen (1):
>   text: Add language and text-direction to protocol
>
>  clients/editor.c           | 20 ++++++++++++++++-
>  clients/keyboard.c         | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  clients/weston-simple-im.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  protocol/input-method.xml  | 11 ++++++++++
>  protocol/text.xml          | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  src/text-backend.c         | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  6 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.8.1
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