[Bug 2832] Broken implementation of XIMStringConversionCallback in libX11.

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------- Additional Comments From eich at pdx.freedesktop.org  2005-03-29 08:42 -------
You're welcome to fix this. 

I know too little about XIM to be able to judge, but maybe there is a way to
keep the XIM ABI with a different IM backend to support legacy apps in the future.
This is partly the goal of your work to interface to SCIM. But it is also to
goal of this work to keep XIM around to retain all its functionalities -
including the ABI for BE IM servers.
The question is if this stuff is still required of if the interface can be made
a lot 'thinner'.
We need to have a word with the KDE/Qt people about this issue. There may still
be a lot of unresolved issues with XIM and multithreading lingering in the
background which will be a major obstacle for KDE to make apps multi threaded.

Convincing maintianed toolkits that XIM is crap is easy. The hard part is what
to do about legacy apps.
          
     
     
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