Re: GTK+ 2.11.5 released

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 7/4/07, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 15:15 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On 7/4/07, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> > > Could we please apply this small API-addition patch before the API is
> > > frozen?
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450716
> > >
> > > For instance, it would allow an application with only a numeric keypad
> > > to turn on the multipress input method for widgets that should accept
> > > alphanumeric data.
> >
> > I'm not convinced that making this an app-callable api is necessarily the
> > right thing. Wouldn't it make more sense to have an x setting for this to
> > control it desktop-wide ?
>
> That would also be useful, to set the default input method.
>
> But applications still need to be able to specify different input
> methods (or different behavior of one input method) for different parts
> of their UI. A system-wide setting doesn't help with that.

If  it is a setting, then apps can override it.