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

[Jan Arne Petersen]

On 31.01.2013 20:59, Yichao Yu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Jan Arne Petersen
> <jpetersen at openismus.com> wrote:
>> Currently the context is state-less but even when we add state there, in
>> Qt, for example, there is currently just one input context per
>> application not one per widget.
> 
> The whole point is not about distinguishing different clients, it's
> about tracking the state. It doesn't matter how many input context an
> application created, but the input method must be able to know if it
> is dealing with a same input_context and restore states accordingly.
> (well the client is able to destroy this by recreate a context
> whenever it get focus but that is definitely a bug.) A state less
> input method context is plain wrong.
> 
> P.S. if you are looking at ibus-qt, you may want to have a look at
> qt's xim and fcitx immodule, both of them create input context per
> main window.

Yes, I will look more into Chinese input methods soon, and we can still
change the way input contexts are handled on input method side. The work
is all done in Weston so we can experiment with it before it is moved to
Wayland.

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Jan Arne Petersen
Openismus GmbH
http://www.openismus.com