scim and Qt5

[leggewie]

What is the plan for scim with regards to Qt5?

[tzhuan]

I have tried to make the support for Qt5 about one year ago but there were so many issues that I could not address at that time. I remembered that the scim could be launched via the hotkey but I could not make any input and sometimes the programs (both scim and the test app) crashed. It was very difficult to investigate because I almost knew nothing about Qt. Later on I have focused on the refactoring for the code base as following so the Qt5 support work was pending.

• integrate the scim-bridge into the scim internally. I am trying to make the scim-bridge as the internal core and build the libscim on top of it.
• upgrade the c++ code base to confirm c++11 or even c++14.
• support newer gtk+ release.

By the way, I was getting busier and busier so the progress is really slow...

[leggewie]

@heroxbd, is this something you can help out with? You wanted in, this is your chance!

[heroxbd]

@leggewie Thank you for your consideration.

I am fine with GTK-3. Therefore I have no interest in porting the code base to Qt5.

[leggewie]

https://bugs.debian.org/875250
https://bugs.debian.org/851827

[derekdai]

Hi, I recently added Qt5 and IBus portal (for applications run with flatpak) support, here is my fork
https://github.com/derekdai/scim

The functionalities are complete and work well, to my limited test (table based Chinese input).

[heroxbd]

Hi, I recently added Qt5 and IBus portal (for applications run with flatpak), here is my fork
https://github.com/derekdai/scim

The functionalities are complete and work well, to my limited test (table based Chinese input).

Thanks for sharing. To clarity, how does it relate to IBus?

[derekdai]

In flatpak, the IBus portal is the one and only one protocol to support input method. So, to make scim play with applications run winthin flatpak, your have no option other than to implement it.

What is necessary for the next input method framework?, page 7

fcitx also has IBus portal frontend
https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/tree/master/src/frontend

[heroxbd]

In flatpak, the IBus portal is the one and only one protocol to support input method. So, to make scim play with applications run winthin flatpak, your have no option other than to implement it.

What is necessary for the next input method framework?, page 7

fcitx also has IBus portal frontend
https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/tree/master/src/frontend

Thank you so much! I will take a look at your repo.