[PATCH wayland-protocols v7] text: Create second version of text input protocol

[Jan Arne Petersen]

Hi,

On Wed, 2016-10-12 at 15:50 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 12:26:28AM +0200, Jan Arne Petersen wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:01 PM Carlos Garnacho <carlosg at gnome.org>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Carlos,
> > 
> > Thanks for the feedback.
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Chiming in, and kinda late at that... hopefully we'll get this
> > > moving :).
> > 
> > I do not think we want to change text_input_unstable_v2 version 1
> > anymore
> > (since it already got shipped in Qt 5.7.0 and Plasma 5.7.0). Sorry
> > for that.
> > But I already started to  work on text_input_unstable_v2 version 2
> > and also
> > text_input_unstable_v3 where I like to include the feedback.
> > 
> > > 
> > > First of all, I'm aware that some of my comments are directed
> > > towards
> > > stuff that's unchanged between v1 and v2, so please bear with me,
> > > I
> > > hope the feedback is useful.
> > 
> > Sure that is perfectly fine, I think that is the idea of the
> > unstable protocols
> > anyways that we can still change everything and adapt them with
> > real
> > world experience.
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Jan Arne Petersen <janarne at gmai
> > > l.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > There were some shortcomings in the first version of the
> > > > protocol which
> > > > makes it not really useful in real world applications. It is
> > > > not really
> > > > possible to fix them in a compatible way so introduce a new v2
> > > > of the
> > > > protocol.
> > > > 
> > > > Fixes some shortcomings of the first version:
> > > > 
> > > > * Use only one wp_text_input per wl_seat (client side should be
> > > >   handled by client toolkit)
> > > > * Allow focus tracking without wl_keyboard present
> > > > * Improve update state handling and better define state
> > > > handling
> 
> I'd love to see a re-rev of this patch.  Looking at a diff between v1
> and v2, those three changes seem quite suitable, although I'd like to
> see an exact minimal diff of the changes so holding off on detailed
> review.  But worth an acked by at least:
> 
> Acked-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce at osg.samsung.com>

Yes I am working on a new patch. Next time I will also add a diff
between the both protocols so it is easier to review.

> The input-method and text-input protocols both deal with similar
> functionality (text input).  I'm not sure if we already have a high
> level description somewhere that describes their relationship, but at
> a minimum I think the protocols ought to cross-reference each
> other.  (For
> instance, something like, "See also the input-method protocol, which
> provides ...")  When I first looked at the two protocols, just
> reading
> their descriptions it wasn't obvious at all how they related; it only
> clicked after studying the weston code.

Yes that makes sense. I guess we can also update the input-method
protocol together with the text-input protocol to make it easier to
update the implementation of both protocols in weston.

Regards
Jan Arne