need input method API

[Allison Karlitskaya]

We should probably start talking about what the interaction between the toolkit and Mir will be when it comes to input methods.

We had a brief chat about this in Washington.

We will need:

 - a way for the toolkit to feed the 'current word' to the input method
 - a way for the input method to tell us to type uncommited text
 - a way for the input method to cancel the uncommited text
 - a way for the input method to delete/modify the 'current word' that was told to it by the toolkit
 - a way to commit text

I'm pretty sure we convinced ourselves in Washington that the cookie based approach (each word entered got a cookie that could be used to refer to it later) wasn't going to work. We need a way for the toolkit to feed words back to Mir.

[Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)]

Other nice things:

 - we should be able to tell Mir the location of the cursor (for positioning of the IM window on desktop)
 - we should be able to tell Mir the type of text expected (email address, url, etc.) for customisation of a software keyboard

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

If I remember the conversation correctly we need slightly more than just being able to feed the ‘current word’ to the input method; we also need to be able to feed context?

[Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)]

> If I remember the conversation correctly we need slightly more than
> just being able to feed the ‘current word’ to the input method; we also
> need to be able to feed context?

This is what I was trying to (crudely) say by saying "current word". More or less we need 'enough for the IM to find its place again', whatever that ends up being.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Syncing task from Mir.