[2019-02-14 10:50] Igor Fontana <r...@skylittlesystem.org> > > > > > I wonder what people think if XIM support is removed from dmenu (but > > > > kept for > > > > st). Reverting XIM and the input focus change? > > > > > > Absolutely ;) People who need it, could maintain a patch for it. > > > > I am also not against that since I never use an IME with dmenu. If > > somebody on this list does so, I think now would be a good time to > > speak up... > > I think not having XIM is bad. To me it sounds like "japanese is too > complicated, speak english". May be the case that _we_ don't need it > that much, but then we're putting another barrier on who we call _we_.
While I agree in general, I exclusively use dmenu for dmenu_run, i. e. to start command line programs in my PATH. I doubt that a lot of their names contain characters written in languages that use IMEs. Assuming that most people use dmenu for this purpose, removing the IME functionality seems okay to me. > Having the keyboard working is just too basic and should be provided > by default in any software, not as a separate patch. > > And it seems like it's mostly working and that it's not that easy to > trigger the bug. In this case, I think it's even worse to remove it. > > That is my political position. > > If st isn't affected, can't dmenu be fixed? With the suggested patch applied, everything worked for me when using IBus and in st we use a similar pattern to what this patch is proposing (x.c:1007-1014). I am not sure why Patrick's IME (SCIM) is working in st but not in dmenu with the patch applied... Cheers, Silvan
