Bug#1008481: Add SDL_IM_MODULE to fcitx4 and fcitx5

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@debian.org>]

On 2022-03-28 21:27, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 3:05 AM Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> <gunnarhj@debian.org> wrote:
> > But with that said, I don't think it makes sense to spam the
> > users' environment with duplicate variables. Upstream already makes
> > use of the well established XMODIFIERS variable, and by parsing its
> > value they would know whether fcitx(5) is used or not. So we may
> > want to propose that to upstream rather than adding a new
> > application specific variable.
>
> 1. I thought XMODIFIERS is for XIM (X Input Method). Not sure why
> sdl2 checks XMODIFIERS as well.
> 2. Changing sdl2 upstream takes too long to propagate. SDL_IM_MODULE
> appeared in sdl2 since 2016
> https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/808c75d1
> User asks for this for Dota2 game, which seems hard to get sdl2
> updated...

Ok, I rest my case. :)

As far as I'm concerned, please feel free to push the change to the repo.

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Gunnar