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text-input: update to 3.2

Carlos Garnacho requested to merge carlosg/wayland-protocols:wip/text-input-3.2 into main

Here's an attempt to move text_input_v3 forward without a full v4/text-input-next bump. I have gathered the hopefully least controversial or most backwards compatible bits:

  • "No emoji" hint (!136)
  • IM caret + surface synchronization (!72)
  • An action system (!73)
  • A "preedit shown" hint (!66)
  • A solution for type-to-search, where IMs may miss the key event(s) popping up the entry (!233)

Left out:

  • !234, needs buy-in by IM authors (and possibly input_method protocol changes), or it will be a well-intentioned but useless api.
  • !71, this second commit mode can be shortcut at the compositor level without exposing to clients. It is what Mutter/GNOME Shell did.
  • Other more fundamental changes, these feel like should be pondered/addressed in a distinct version
    • Explicit reset mode, !34
    • Chars vs. offsets
    • Meaning/management of serials

Implementations:

Acks:

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Edited by Carlos Garnacho

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