[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#639552: ibus: --enable-surrounding-text
Harshula
harshula at gmail.com
Sun Aug 28 06:13:06 UTC 2011
Package: ibus
Severity: normal
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:
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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).
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The reasons why STS is needed are documented here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435880
Thanks,
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