[maemo-developers] GTK IM switch by software keyboard

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 22:52 +0800, Bin Chen wrote:
> I have ported a new GTK input method module to my platform, the
> regular steps to switch input method in a GTK+ text widget is to right
> click the entry point and select the desired input method.
> 
> Now I want to do all this more simpler, I want to add a button in the
> software keyboard or a hardware keyboard, when press the button, the
> GTK+ input method will switch in a round-robin scheme. Is it possible?

I don't believe this is currently possible, but it would be possible
with the very latest version of GTK+:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502446

Unfortunately, that's not in any version of Maemo, or even any regular
Linux distro yet.

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