your gigantic dependency web is my only option for doing something does your fav "suckless" tool support IMEs? thought so
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Replying to @whitequark
I'm not with suckless. But plain Xlib supports input methods & the api is much nicer than gtk, etc.
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Replying to @RichFelker
I had the misfortune of using it and I do not agree; that said, I don't think you can e.g. perform input in i3-input using uim
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Replying to @whitequark
uim at least had a bridge for xim; not sure if it's still maintained.
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Replying to @RichFelker
well the end result is that doing what actual people need makes software "bloated" most of the time and we can't have that can we?
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Replying to @whitequark
Bloat is not a natural consequence of meeting user requirements. It's just bad sw engineering.
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Replying to @RichFelker @whitequark
Quite often it's about not understanding the requirements and trying to make an overly general solution instead. See pango vs harfbuzz.
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Replying to @RichFelker @whitequark
Pango does much more than HarfBuzz (bidi, font/character fallback, line breaking…) and it fact it uses HarfBuzz for the low level shaping.
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Replying to @KhaledGhetas @whitequark
That's my whole point. Until harfbuzz, had to use a lib (pango) aimed at fancy layout just to get basic correct m17n text display.
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Replying to @RichFelker @whitequark
HarfBuzz does not give you “basic correct” text display on its own, you still need to apply bidi and text segmentation for the bare minimum.
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Yes, but those are fully specified by Unicode and have multiple existing implementations. See: failure to factor, above.
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