Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

Dorota Czaplejewicz dorota.czaplejewicz at puri.sm
Sat Oct 30 08:22:52 UTC 2021


Hi Brad,

On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 10:58:59 +1100
Brad Robinson <brobinson at toptensoftware.com> wrote:

> 2. Are there options for IME and Accessibility for pure Wayland apps?

Yes, there are at least 2 approaches:

- embed the IME in your application, like GNOME/Mutter seems to be doing (I'm not super acquainted with that)
- use the text-input and related protocols. They are still far from perfect or complete, but they have some momentum.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/tree/wip/text-input-next (also see the countless issues and merge requests in the same repo).

Cheers,
Dorota
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