Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

[Brad Robinson]

Hi Dorota,

Thanks for the info... I wasn't aware of that text input protocol, that
sounds very promising - hopefully they make good progress with that.

Brad

On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 7:24 PM Dorota Czaplejewicz <
dorota.czaplejewicz at puri.sm> wrote:

> Hi Brad,
>
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 10:58:59 +1100
> Brad Robinson <brobinson at toptensoftware.com> wrote:
>
> > 2. Are there options for IME and Accessibility for pure Wayland apps?
>
> Yes, there are at least 2 approaches:
>
> - embed the IME in your application, like GNOME/Mutter seems to be doing
> (I'm not super acquainted with that)
> - use the text-input and related protocols. They are still far from
> perfect or complete, but they have some momentum.
>
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/tree/wip/text-input-next
> (also see the countless issues and merge requests in the same repo).
>
> Cheers,
> Dorota
>
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