Re: [Varnamproject-discuss] New feature

[Navaneeth K N]

Cool… 
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Navaneeth



> On 02-Apr-2015, at 9:05 am, Kevin Martin <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi, the PR is almost ready. I'm home for easter. Will submit the PR as soon 
> as I get back.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Kevin Martin Jose
> 
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Navaneeth K N <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi Kevin,
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> I did some work on the preferences screen for ibus-varnam engine.
> 
> Run `ibus-setup` or choose `Preferences` from the panel, and choose
> one of the varnam engines. You can notice that the `Preferences`
> button is activated now. Clicking on that will open a new window which
> can have all the configurable options that we need.
> 
> The way this is done,
> 
> 1) Preferences is a separate GTK application
> 2) ibus looks for <setup> node in the XML configuration. This setup
> node points to the executable for the preferences application.
> 
> I still haven't added properties in to this screen. I will do that
> later. In the meantime, can you please cleanup your implementation and
> send a PR?
> 
> On Saturday 07 March 2015 09:05 PM, Navaneeth K N wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Friday 06 March 2015 05:45 PM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> >> Yes, we need to be able to turn this feature on and off. But
> >> where would the configuration option go? Do we specify it as a
> >> flag when compiling or do we have to come up with a system to
> >> handle these settings? A similar situation arose when we were
> >> developing with inscript. Inscript used normal chills while
> >> varnam by default used atomic chills (or was it the other way
> >> round?). Instead of hardcoding the checks, I thought it would be
> >> better if we can implement a whole new settings feature.
> >
> > Usually, when you run `ibus-setup`, and click on the input method,
> > there is a "Preferences" button (which is disabled right now for
> > varnam). Ideally all the preferences will go there.
> >
> > Now, I am not sure about how we can hook on to the preferences.
> > Probably, looking at some other engines source might help.
> >
> >
> 
> - --
> Cheers,
> Navaneeth
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