Re: Input Method of Gnome

[a-higuti math sci hokudai ac jp (Akira Higuchi)]

Hi,

In article <199903110202.LAA15708@pwd.chroot.org>
gniibe@chroot.org writes:

>Well, from the view of the desktop environment, the structure of XIM
>is not good, IMHO.  We should not define Input Method Server
>independent and solve it with the lower layer.  We can handle it in
>the higher layer (i.e. the desktop environment), in more natural way.
>
>My proposal: Throw XIM out.  It's only the workaround of the days in
>which we needed to define in lower layer.  We need total design of
>text/entry widget with support of input method for
>internationalization.  It can be solved straightforward in the layer
>of widget.

Sounds cool. It's reasonable that a nondeterministic conversion
(such as kana-kanji conversion) should be treated as a normal
editing process rather than a frontend preprocessing. But you
have no need to embed a Lisp interpreter into gtk+! The only
thing we(?) have to do is to override some methods in GtkEntry
and GtkText, I think.

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Akira Higuchi
Dept. of Mathematics, Hokkaido Univ.
Hokkaido, Japan
Email: a-higuti@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp