Re: IM-related issues on openSUSE 12.1 Beta

At Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:44:43 +0200,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> At Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:41:19 +0200,
> Vincent Untz wrote:
> > 
> > Le mardi 11 octobre 2011, à 14:20 +0200, Takashi Iwai a écrit :
> > > At Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:54:41 +0200,
> > > Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > >  > A simple patch like below might work?  Then we can set xim to
> > > > >  > GTK3_IM_MODULE while scim to GTK_IM_MODULE.
> > > > >  > I created a branch and building the package now for testing in
> > > > >  > OBS home:tiwai:branches:GNOME:Factory/gtk3 repo.
> > > > >  > Can anyone check (sorry I have no time right now).
> > > > > 
> > > > >  > But the problem isn't only about SCIM but may hit other IMs, too.
> > > > >  > So, a fallback mechanism would be nicer.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Very simple patch!
> > > > > 
> > > > > I set variables like:
> > > > > GTK3_IM_MODULE=xim
> > > > > GTK_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge
> > > > > XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
> > > > > 
> > > > > It works fine for gedit (Gtk3, fall back to xim), firefox and chromium 
> > > > > (Gtk2).
> > > > 
> > > > Good to hear.
> > > > 
> > > > Vincent, what do you think?  Can it be accepted to the upstream and
> > > > eventually put into 12.1?
> > > 
> > > Vincent?  Or anyone else?  I attach the patch again.
> > > 
> > > [The problem is that some input methods don't provide gtk3 but only
> > >  gtk2 im-modules.  When $GTK_IM_MODULE is set to such a module, gtk3
> > >  can't take it then chooses another available IM randomly, or nothing
> > >  is available.  The patch changes gtk3 to take a look at
> > >  $GTK3_IM_MODULE first, so that the user can set a value specific to
> > >  gtk3.  With the patch, setting GTK3_IM_MODULE=xim gives a nice
> > >  workaround.]
> > 
> > The patch would be fine for me, but we really want it to be accepted
> > upstream before using this.
> 
> Yeah, of course.
> 
> > Was it filed upstream?
> 
> Not from me.  I'm going to check and file a bug if not found.

OK, I found a bug 603559 in bugzilla.gnome.org.  (In the original
redhat bugzilla, it's still opened since 2008!)

The patch there looks good to me, too.  It extends the syntax like
"A:B" to fallback to B.  The only drawback would be that you'll need
to apply both gtk2 and gtk3 at the same time for accepting this new
syntax by the single $GTK_IM_MODULE.


Takashi
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