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inputmethod: Send pre-defined commit message to client on user interaction

David Edmundson requested to merge work/d_ed/im_commit into master

In some IM backends pre-edit text should be submitted on user interaction, in some it should be discarded.

In TextInputV1 and V2 this was a flag sent to the client along with the commit string ahead of time.

TextInputV3 does not have a flag for this, so we handle it compositor side.

We flush the text to be committed :

  • when we change keyboard focus, before the current client gets wl_keyboard.leave

  • when a mouse is pressed in the relevant surface

  • when a key is pressed and the InputMethod doesn't have a grab

  • when the InputMethod forwards a key to the client (which includes the InputMethod passing on grabbed keys)

Edited by David Edmundson

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