Dasom

Dasom is an input method framework, which provides

• Input Method Server

  • dasom-daemon including XIM

• Indicators

  • GNOME shell: dasom agent extension
  • KDE, Unity, GNOME panel: dasom-indicator (based on libappindicator3)

Project Homepage: https://github.com/dasom-im/dasom

LICENSE

dasom is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

dasom is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program; If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

INSTALL

• Compile

    ./autogen.sh
    make
    sudo make install
    sudo ldconfig
    sudo make update-gtk-icon-cache

• For gnome-shell, enable dasom-agent@gnome-shell-extensions.cogno.org

    gnome-shell-extension-tool -e dasom-agent@gnome-shell-extensions.cogno.org

• Configure im-config

    Run im-config, then select Dasom, logout and login.

Troubleshoot

• Failed to load shared library
  Check /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ for /usr/local/lib path

Architecture

    +- im modules (optional) -+  +---- each process -----+  +- a process --+
    |        dasom-gtk        |  | gnome-shell-extension |  |   X server   |
    |        dasom-qt         |  | dasom-indicator       |  +--------------+
    +-------------------------+  +-----------------------+    ^ |
                 | calls                  | calls             | |
       +------------------+    +---------------------+        | |
       | dasom IM library |    | dasom agent library |        | | communicates
       +------------------+    +---------------------+        | |
                ^ |                      ^ |                  | |
                | |   communicates       | |                  | |
                | |   via Unix Socket    | |                  | |
                | v                      | v                  | v
          +---------------------- a process ----------------------+
          |                     dasom-daemon (including XIM)      |
          +-------------------------------------------------------+
                          | calls                  | create instance
                          | singleton instance     | (not module yet)
                +---------------+            +------------------+
                | engine module |   calls    | candidate module |
                |   interface   | ---------> |    interface     |
                +---------------+            +------------------+
                  |                             |
                  +- dasom-english (embedded)   +- dasom-candidate (gtk3)
                  +- dasom-jeongeum (optional)

References

http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/libX11/specs/XIM/xim.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/ime-api/
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/input_ime
https://docs.enlightenment.org/stable/efl/group__Ecore__IMF__Lib__Group.html
http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qinputcontext.html
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qinputmethod.html
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+

https://github.com/ibus/ibus
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https://github.com/uim/uim