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This file describes significant change from qt-x11-immodule-bc-qt3.3.2-20040623. Differences from previous release (qt-x11-immodule-unified-qt3.3.3-20040819) are itemized with '+' sign. Search it to track incremental change. **************************************************************************** * For users * **************************************************************************** General ------- + A strange character inversion problem on some input methods has been fixed Input methods ------------- - Added "simple" input method which provides dead/multi key composing for latin languages User Interface -------------- - Added input method selection menu in the context menu of text widgets Configuration ------------- + default IM configuration feature of qtconfig has been disabled in BC mode. This is a political change to avoid the confusion about input method configuration in accordance with GTK+ environment. See following discussion for further information. http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/immodule-qt/2004-August/000416.html - Added new environment variables QT_IM_SWITCHER and QT_IM_MODULE to set user's favorite input method as default. See README.immodule for examples. Build & Install --------------- + configure options have been changed for internal reasons. See 'How to install' section of README.immodule - This version of immodule requires corresponding version of each input method plugins (i.e. update your additional input method plugins) - Plugin directory has been changed from $QTDIR/plugins/input/ to $QTDIR/plugins/inputmethods/. Delete old directory. - Some codes have been changed to allow compiling against Qt 3.2.x or earlier. **************************************************************************** * For develpers * **************************************************************************** Documents --------- - Almost description of QInputContext and QInputContextPlugin has been filled. Feel free to ask obscure things at our mailinglist. New features ------------ - Pluggable input method switcher Now we can write input method switcher as an ordinary input method plugin. The two plugins 'imsw-multi' and 'imsw-none' are provided as default. But the architecture needs more discussion about whether the design is right or not. Join the discussion. - Pluggable popup menu Any input method can provide its own popup menu. See http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/immodule-qt/2004-August/000266.html for further information. - QInputContext proxying Some methods of QInputContext have been changed to enable QInputContext proxying. This feature is required to implement pluggable input method switcher. General ------- + QInputContext has been source compatible with Qt4 version. Basic input method plugin can be source compatible without #ifdef. Only pluggable popup menu requires #ifdef'ed different code. In addition, be careful about use of classes that is deprecated in Qt4. - Our two development tree for Qt3 'Binary Compatible' and 'ALL' have been merged into this unified source tree. The source tree is called 'Unified' patch. - 'dead keys' for latin languages have been added into Qt::Key - Added plugins/src/inputmethods directory to build input method plugins within the Qt source tree. The directory name 'inputmethods' is intended to be compatible with Qt/Embedded. Install directory name is still kept as 'input' for backward compatibility - Changed XIM input method to a plugin instead of directly link into libqt - Plugin directory has been changed from $QTDIR/plugins/input/ to $QTDIR/plugins/inputmethods/. Replace install directory with new one. - Fixed some bugs in previous qt-x11-immodule-bc-qt3.3.2-20040623. See following log for more detail. * src/kernel/qwidget_x11.cpp - (destroyInputContext): Replace the code with original Simplified API patch. See the comment to recognize the original intention - (focusInputContext): Fix a condition to call qic->setFocus() as originally written. See added comment to recognize the original intention - QLocale dependency has been removed to be compiled on Qt 3.2.x or earlier - Many internal improvements and cleanups API Changes in qt-x11-immodule-unified-qt3.3.3-20040910 ------------------------------------------------------- + QInputContext * QInputContext() Added 'parent' arg to be compatible with Qt4. Since the arg defaults to 0, no modification of plugins are required. * language() * identifierName() Return type of these two methods have been changed from QCString which is deprecated in Qt4 to QString to make plugins source compatible with Qt4. * addActionsTo() New method for Qt4 text widget developer API Changes in qt-x11-immodule-unified-qt3.3.3-20040812 ------------------------------------------------------- - QInputContext proxying QInputContext have been changed as follows to enable QInputContext proxying. 1. Use signal to deliver QIMEvent instead of explicit postEvent(). This enables QIMEvent proxying and better platform abstraction. Corresponding slot is created as QApplication::imEventReceived(). 2. Move some methods of QInputContext to public from protected or private. This enables that proxy-IM can access slave methods. 3. Make some methods of QInputContext virtual. This enables overriding the methods as proxy 4. Rename QInputContext::name() to identifierName() to avoid conflicting with QObject::name() - QInputContext * language() New method to indicate current language * menus() New method for the pluggable popup menu feature * addMenusTo() New method for text widget developer * deletionRequested() New signal to request deletion of this instance. This is added for fatal error handling * identifierName() This replaces name() of previous API to avoid conflicting with QObject::name(), and to distinguish the role from displayName() * filterEvent() Turn the argument into const. See http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/immodule-qt/2004-August/000335.html for further information * isComposing * isPreeditRelocationEnabled Move to public from protected to allow proxying * setFocusWidget * setHolderWidget * releaseComposingWidget Move to public from private to allow proxying * focusWidget * holderWidget - Make public from protected to allow proxying - Make virtual to allow overriding the method as proxy - QInputContextPlugin * languages() New method which returns what languages are supported by the QInputContext instance * displayName() New method which returns a user friendly i18n-ized name of the QInputContext instance * description() New method which returns a i18n-ized brief description of the QInputContext instance