Input Method Framework

Submitted by Raymond, updated on 29 Oct 2009

Brief introduction

This project aims to provide Clutter with an Input Method Context Framework, with which the existing input method can be extended to support Clutter on moblin2.

Scope

The scope of this project will be:

A clutter-imcontext library to add IMContext framework to Clutter.

A client module for SCIM bridge to support SCIM in Clutter applications.
Feature enhancement for scim-bridge and scim-panel

A client module for IBus to enable IBus in Clutter applications
A new panel for IBus to use Virtual Keyboard for input

Source code

Currently, there are mainly two related source code git tree available on git.moblin.org:

ClutterIMContext: http://git.moblin.org/cgit.cgi/clutter-imcontext

It's a port from GtkIMContext with some feature enhancement such as: auto show/hide cb. More features will be added into it continually.

scim-panel-vkb-gtk: http://git.moblin.org/cgit.cgi/scim-panel-vkb-gtk

This package provides scim with another gtk panel as well as a setup module to select which panel to use. The main target of this package is to provide a panel with the ability to embed a Virtual Keyboard with the original UI of Input Method. Therefore, a MID-like device without hardware keyboard can make use of the input method with VKB easily.

scim-bridge

To support ClutterIMContext, a client module is also written for scim-bridge. At present, the patch for scim-bridge is still being maintained in Moblin2 repo and is not available as a standalone git tree.

ibus-client-clutter: http://git.moblin.org/cgit.cgi/ibus-client-clutter

This is a client module written for IBus
You can check our documents for using IBus on Moblin2 for more details.

Build and run

To get more information about using input method on Moblin2 and how to enable a Clutter application with input method, please check out our documents.