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

[Simon Hausmann]

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 17:23, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 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.

I'm not sure if portability is important here. Windows and OS X do provide an 
input method framework as well as actual input methods. I think IMBUS is much 
more interesting as platform specific API for the free software desktop.


Simon
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