[Pkg-ime-devel] IBus: Surrounding Text Support

[LI Daobing]

@phuang can you help explain what's the usage of surrounding-text?

thanks

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 00:36, Harshula <harshula at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could you please enable surrounding text support (STS) by passing
> "--enable-surrounding-text" to configure? This is the first upstream
> IBus release in Debian that contains STS code. SCIM had STS a long time
> ago.
>
> Daiki (CC'd) implemented the feature:
> -----------------------------------------
> commit 06e6abee9f221bdf7c277538ce136154465619d7
> Author: Daiki Ueno <daiki.ueno at gmail.com>
> Date:   2011-04-05 10:11:49 -0400
>
>    Support surrounding-text retrieval.
>
>    Unlike the GtkIMContext API, IBus automatically retrieves
>    surrounding-text when certain events occurred to the
>    client ("before filter_keypress", for example).  This makes the
>    engine API simpler but causes periodical emission of D-Bus
>    signals for updating surrounding-text information, which is
>    unwanted for typical engines.
>
>    For this reason, the surrounding-text support is currently
>    disabled by default.  To enable it, pass
>    --enable-surrounding-text to configure.  Also, even
>    surrounding-text support is compiled in, IBus does not start
>    polling until an engine requests surrounding-text using
>    ibus_engine_get_surrounding_text().  To make the function work
>    for the first time, clients should retrieve
>    initial surrounding-text when the engine is enabled (see
> ibus_im_context_focus_in() and
>    _ibus_context_enabled_cb() in client/gtk2/ibusimcontext.c).
> -----------------------------------------
>
> The reasons why STS is needed are documented here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435880
>
> Thanks,
> #
>
> On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 21:48 +0000, Debian FTP Masters wrote:
>>
>>
>> Accepted:
>> ibus-doc_1.3.99.20110419-1_all.deb
>>   to main/i/ibus/ibus-doc_1.3.99.20110419-1_all.deb
>> ibus-gtk3_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb
>>   to main/i/ibus/ibus-gtk3_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb
>> ibus-gtk_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb
>>   to main/i/ibus/ibus-gtk_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb
>> ibus_1.3.99.20110419-1.debian.tar.gz
>>   to main/i/ibus/ibus_1.3.99.20110419-1.debian.tar.gz
>> ibus_1.3.99.20110419-1.dsc
>>   to main/i/ibus/ibus_1.3.99.20110419-1.dsc
>> ibus_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb
>>   to main/i/ibus/ibus_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb
>> ibus_1.3.99.20110419.orig.tar.gz
>>   to main/i/ibus/ibus_1.3.99.20110419.orig.tar.gz
>> libibus-1.0-0_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb
>>   to main/i/ibus/libibus-1.0-0_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb
>> libibus-1.0-dev_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb
>>   to main/i/ibus/libibus-1.0-dev_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb
>> python-ibus_1.3.99.20110419-1_all.deb
>>   to main/i/ibus/python-ibus_1.3.99.20110419-1_all.deb
>>
>>
>> Override entries for your package:
>> ibus-doc_1.3.99.20110419-1_all.deb - optional doc
>> ibus-gtk3_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb - optional utils
>> ibus-gtk_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb - optional utils
>> ibus_1.3.99.20110419-1.dsc - source utils
>> ibus_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb - optional utils
>> libibus-1.0-0_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb - optional libs
>> libibus-1.0-dev_1.3.99.20110419-1_amd64.deb - optional libdevel
>> python-ibus_1.3.99.20110419-1_all.deb - optional python
>>
>> Announcing to debian-devel-changes at lists.debian.org
>> Closing bugs: 635023
>>
>>
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>>
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LI Daobing