Input Sources BoF

Held on Tuesday 31 July at GUADEC.

Priorities for 3.6

• Switch from whitelist filtering to a blacklist that excludes xkb engines (682313)

• Fix non-GTK+ applications by switching to the simple ibus engine for xkb layouts (680313)

• Make sure shell StEntries stay in sync with GTK+, as far as engines are concerned (680312)

• Support for 3rd level chooser/compose key in shortcuts panel (Done)

• Support for ctrl/caps swap and similar keyboard variants in gnome-tweak-tool (678171)

• Add hiragana/katakana menu to keyboard status, including switching icons (682314)

• Language-dependent defaults for Ctrl-space, and other keybindings (682316)

• Add back xkb statusicon for fallback mode (679819)

• OSD for Ctrl-space switching in gnome-shell ([[682315])

• Fix up missing icons/wrong labels in engine descriptions

Other

• Preedit support in StEntry (664041)

• Refinements for the add dialog (structured list) (682317)

• Expose engine options other than hiragana/katakana in the shell menu (682318)

• Make 'Add to dictionary' available in context (682324)

• Get dictionary words online

• Handle language-specific input keys (682319)