GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 91216
composed text is commit at mouse click and focus change
Last modified: 2018-02-10 03:32:08 UTC
Per feedback from beta customer and tester's in Asia and Japan, many feel it strange and even wrong that composed text is commit on mouse click and focus change.
Change components to input methods, as this is when XIM is used and XmbResetIC is called.
Changing this is going to make the problems described in bug 62948 worse. Perhaps this is something that we have to handle separately for CJK input methods with status windows and for input methods that don't have a big visible presence or an well known explicit commit key. Being able to drag around the precomposed text with the cursor doesn't make a lot of sense if the precomposed text is half of a compose sequence. Fixing this would probably involve doing something like using one of the unused IM context methods for a "get_flags()" virtual function.
Okay to postpone it to 2.4.0. Is 2.4.0 the earliest release to make API change? Are you going to make a branch anytime soon?
2.6.0 is the earliest point to make an API addition at this point; no plans for allowing incompatible changes at this point.
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