GTK+ Input Method Documentation

Date: December 10th, 2008 by Author: Daniel Elstner

Better late than never. GTK+ has supported loadable input method modules since the beginning of the century. However, how to actually implement a custom input method and make GTK+ use it has never been documented.

So, if you ever wanted to implement your own GTK+ input method (say, for example, one that completes words from a dictionary like it works on a mobile phone) but have been put off by the lack of GtkIMContext documentation — there you go. The patch is waiting at bug #563994, for early approvers.

It would be nice if there were a non-hackish way to reduce the GTK+ documentation build times, by the way…