Dec 13 – 15, 2025
Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
Asia/Tokyo timezone

IBus pre-edit hints for Wayland

Dec 14, 2025, 10:10 AM
1h
Internet Initiative Japan Inc.

Internet Initiative Japan Inc.

Iidabashi Grand Bloom, 2-10-2 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0071
BoF: IN PERSON Track A

Speaker

Takao Fujiwara (Red Hat)

Description

IBus is an input-method framework which has historically managed pre-edit colors using RGB values, a logic that has worked well in Xorg desktop environments. Moving forward, IBus will manage pre-edit colors using hint values for Wayland desktop environments, allowing each Wayland compositor(gnome-shell/mutter) to manage the actual RGB values.

Category Design of Users and Developer Experiences
Talk Description Currently, the pre-edit color for input methods is not supported in GNOME Wayland. I'd like to outline our plan to introduce support for this feature.
Author(s) Bio Takao Fujiwara maintains IBus input-method framework and has contributed to GNOME projects related to internationalization.
Pronouns He/Him
Where are you located? Kanagawa/Japan
Do you need travel sponsorship from GNOME Foundation in order to join our event? No

Author

Takao Fujiwara (Red Hat)

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