On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Bill Spitzak <spit...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/02/2013 09:12 PM, Yichao Yu wrote: > >> E.g. for non-cjk input method, there is likely to be only one per >> language (which is likely to be a keyboard layout). They normally >> never need cursor following window, don't have dozens of internal >> states. Even the use of preedit is not that common. > > > Actually it would be really nice to have compose-key interfaces support > pre-edit. Right now to get an æ, you type the compose key (which causes > nothing visible to happen), type and a (which also causes nothing visible to > happen), then type an e and finally see the result. Also if you type 'j' > instead of 'e' then both keys vanish as though nothing happened. > > I suspect because preedit was a pain to support under X it was never tried.
Not at all, especially if you are using im-module or if you don't need cursor following. Yes, preedit can be used in some input method/layout but other features that I mentioned are rarely used in non-CJK input method. > I hope wayland makes this easy enough that we can get this behavior: 1. you > type the compose key, and the cursor changes because a zero-length preedit > was sent, so you have visual feedback. Then you type an 'a' and you see an > a, perhaps highlighted as preedit. Then you type an 'e' and you see the > committed æ. Furthermore if you type 'j' you will in fact commit the 'a' and > see 'aj' which is a lot more useful. That should be just a feature / bug / option of the input method. And you should just report a issue to the input method you are using (or you can try fcitx and tell us what's the missing feature of fcitx-keyboard.) > > This sort of preview also allows 1-letter compose keys. For instance > compose,1 can produce the super-script ¹, assuming the user does not type 2 > next (which would produce ½). > > > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
