[Scim-devel] Proposal: unified input method/keyboard layout switching support for kde4

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 5:11, LiuCougar wrote:
> >   That's what we (many input method experts from CJK) are working on,
> > which is called IMBUS (Input Method BUS, inspired from D-BUS) project.
> >   This project is still on very preliminary stage, so we still didn't
> > announce it publicly. However, I'm working hard on it and the progress
> > is impressive. Hope we can release the first prototype in middle of
> > this year.

this is great news.

we'll still want a KDE-style API on top of this, probably with various 
convenience methods specific to our needs. it can certainly target IMBUS in 
behind the scenes.

however, unless IMBUS will cover all the platforms KDE supports (*Linux*, 
*BSD, UNIX in various forms, Windows, MacOS ....) and we can rely on it not 
only being here in 10 years but providing strong ABI promises i'd still 
strongly suggest a KDE API that follows a similar approach to Solid/Phonon: a 
good KDE-style API with the possibility for various backends. this gives us 
platform independence and future-proofing.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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