Re: [E-devel] Ecore + XIM working

[Gustavo S. B. <bar...@gm...>]

On Nov 15, 2007 11:10 AM, Andre Magalhaes <and...@gm...> wrote:
> Hey!
>
> On Nov 15, 2007 10:52 AM, Stafford Horne <sh...@so...> wrote:
> > This is very cool.
> Tnx for the feedback.
>
> > Ill need more time to look into it and read the comments.  Do you think this should be integrated into ETK? I thought it might be better to support input methods directly in the ecore_x layer as I have done with XIM.  This has been required as XIM ties in closely with the X event loop.
> >
> > Maybe this is not required if we go directly to SCIM / UIM.
> I will integrate it with ETK today, this is the easiest part.
> Regarding integrating it directly into ecore_x, IMHO this shouldn't be
> done, as we would loose the ability to use it on Windows, Macos, ....
> That's why we have set_client_window (see other mail). Remember that
> this should be an abstraction layer on top of existent IM. The hildon
> input method plugin is highly tied to X event loop, and it works quite
> well, I believe you won't have a problem implementing XIM on top of
> Ecore_IM. You can take a look at
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk%2B/modules/input/gtkimcontextxim.c?rev=1.54&view=markup
> as the base for a Ecore_IM_XIM, as the API of GtkIMContext and
> Ecore_IM_Context is quite similar.

Yes, building XIM on top of this Ecore_IM would be a better option.
shorne, could you have a look?

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