[Interest] Input method support in Qt 5

[Dominik Wezel]

Hi Sérgio and André

Thanks for your replies, which both pointed out that the proposal has 
not died but rather got a new number.

But why was it never implemented?  Or does it need to be activated in a 
particular way? None of the suggested integrations of the Compose key 
file works out of the box in my KDE setup.  I'm not using Ubuntu, but 
Gentoo Linux … but this should not be a distro specific feature anyway.

Thanks for your further investigation!

Dominik

PS: When we get the thing fixed finally, I know of at least two other 
guys which would want to know about that, because they are still working 
on KDE 4 due to loss of compose keys … maybe there are quite a few 
people out there waiting for it --- so we might publicly advertise the 
change after we fixed it.  I offer myself as a tester.

On 10/24/2016 12:02 PM, Sérgio Martins wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Dominik Wezel <dom at qvasartech.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I had to upgrade to KDE 5 recently.  One of the first things I immediately
>> noticed was that my key composition table was no longer working.  In earlier
>> versions, I managed to force Qt and GTK to use XIM, which supported my huge
>> additions to /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.
>>
>> As a mere KDE user without deeper insight, I first blamed KDE for it, but
>> was kindly redirected to Qt as the underlying problem. When searching the
>> net I found some emails from 2013 written by Paeglis Gatis, where I learned
>> that XIM is deprecated in Qt5 and that support for key composition tables is
>> planned to be done directly in Qt.
>>
>> However, it seemed that task https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/48185/ is
>> abandoned.
> Hi,
>
> The change got in: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/51555/
>
>
> Regards,
> Sergio Martins