Re: 3.6 Feature: IBus/XKB integration

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

Input Methods need to display custom widgets in the overview. That
means they need access to St, which is (for now) a private toolkit to
the Shell. DBus would not work, unless we want to do something really
dumb[0]. The only thing that I could think of would either be a
special kind of GNOME Shell Extension, or a module.

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Sergey Udaltsov
<sergey udaltsov gmail com> wrote:
>> We only have the development resources to ship one input method. It's
>> going to need special code to integrate with Clutter and the St
>> toolkit. If IBus is bad right now, we need to fix it.
> Some while ago when I started libxklavier, there was idea to create
> some kind of abstraction layer for xkb and xmodmap. Perhaps it did not
> work quite well, but that was the idea. Is there any chance to create
> some kind of abstraction layer (dbus interface?) that would put IM
> frameworks on equal grounds (subject to discussion - should it be
> runtime or compile time choice). Would it be possible from gtk POV?
> g-c-c and g-s-d POV?
>
> Additionally, would the people using various IM frameworks be able to
> create some kind of comparison table on l.g.o?
>
> Personally I am not using IM, so cannot be expert of any kind in that
> area... I only dealt with XKB so far.
>
> Sergey

[0] http://gtk-server.org/

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  Jasper