Re: set use preedit

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:36, Botond Botyanszki wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The GtkIMContext interface provides an API gtk_im_context_set_use_preedit
> that the application can call to notify the input method whether it
> supports preedit or not.
> I think it is usually called by the application after GtkIMMultiContext is
> instantiated. I have only seen gnome-terminal actually using this API. 
> 
> The problem is that if the input method is changed (by switching to a
> different one in the MultiContext menu), the newly loaded module cannot
> know about the preedit support, because the set_use_preedit function isn't
> called again.
> 
> e.g. if I start gnome-terminal with 
> `GTK_IM_MODULE="my-module" gnome-terminal`
> then my-module gets the use_preedit value, but if I start gnome-terminal
> without any im modules preloaded and then switch to my-module from the
> menu, it won't get the set_use_preedit flag. 
> 
> Is this a faulty design in GtkIMContext, or should the application
> (gnome-terminal/libvte) do something else in addition ?

A bug in GtkIMMulticontext  - it should remember the flag and pass it
to the new "slave" input method.

Please file a bug in bugzilla about it. I wouldn't object to a patch
along with it either.

Regards,
						Owen