Re: 3.6 Feature: IBus/XKB integration

[Weng Xuetian <wengxt gmail com>]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Jasper St. Pierre
<jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> 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.
>
No you are wrong here. Current gnome shell extension support for fcitx
is based on DBus
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/261/kimpanel/

And even for ibus, ibus library is just the dbus wrapper for ibus, if
you're asking for no-dbus, can gnome run without dbus? No.

> 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/
>
> --
>   Jasper
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