Re: default immodule setting?

[Dinesh Nadarajah <n_dinesh yahoo com>]

Yes. That would a great applet indeed. Something like a 'gkb' switcher
for GTK immodules. Maybe with options to select a hot key for switching
and a tag for determining if the switch is to work on a global level or
just the focused window.

Here is an FYI on Unicode based input for immodules. I am running the
latest RedHat Limbo Beta:

I setup an xkb with Unicode output.

In standard/default setting (without any immodule selected), the
Unicode gets correctly displayed on the Gnome2 apps. (well without the
multikey facility).

Now I created and registered a immodule that had a table based entry
like the following:

static guint16 output_sequence[] = {
...
0x1000bca,  0, 0, 0, 0, 0xbf,
...
}

This generated several warnings stating that the integer was too long
for type. Ofcource 0x1000bca is not 16 bit. So I am not sure if a table
based immodule can take a Unicode as the input component. 

Also it seems that values not defined in gdkkeysyms.h are not accepted
as well. For ex. 0xa0 is not defined in that file and hence even if xkb
generates that keysym, gtk immodule does not process it.

I am not sure if these are known behaviors.

Regards,

-D



--- Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> 
> Dinesh Nadarajah <n_dinesh yahoo com> writes:
> 
> > Cool!. How would one switch from one module to another without
> using
> > the 'right-click' mouse method. e.g toggle between the between the
> > default method and the user selected method (say
> cyrillic_translit).
> > Maybe like XKB does with 'shift-toggle' or 'shift-space' or
> something
> > like that. 
> 
> Not currently possible for the user. I'd really like to see nice
> integration of keyboard layouts and input method modules with
> a panel applet to show the current state, but that's that would
> definitely require new code.
> 
> (You can access the menu with the keyboard using <Shift>10)
> 
> > Also, the current table based immodules reads like:
> > 
> > ....
> > GDK_a,  0,  0, 0,  0,  0x0e40
> > ....
> > 
> > can this be rewritten as:
> > 
> > ....
> > XXX,  0,  0, 0,  0,  YYY
> > ....
> > 
> > where XXX and YYY are unicode?
> 
> YYY is already Unicode. XXX can't be unicode -- keysyms don't
> necessarily correspond to Unicode values (think of something
> like "Page Up"). If some Unicode character doesn't have a
> corresponding key symbol, you can use 
> 
>   0x01000000 + Unicode Value
> 
> (This is a standard convention shared by Xterm and other 
> programs.)
> 
> Regards,
>                                         Owen


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