goibus implements the libibus bindings in golang. goibus can be used to create IBus engines aka develop custom input methods.
IBus is an Intelligent Input Bus. It provides full featured and user friendly input method user interface. It also may help developers to develop input method easily.
This library is little bit different than other libibus bindings/wrappers. Instead of wrapping libibus c library or GOBject-Introspection, it implements whole functionality by communicating over DBus IPC. Because of that it is a independent 100% pure golang library without any native dependencies.
####NB: libibus has various classes that are not absolutely required for creating engines. This library only implements engine related classes. Some uncommon class/methods are also skipped for now. You can always implement those and send PR ;)
This table shows the current status of implementation.
| libibus | - | goibus |
|---|---|---|
| IBusAttrList | ✅ | Implemented In text.go |
| IBusAttribute | ✅ | Implemented In text.go |
| IBusBus | ✅ | Implemented In bus.go |
| IBusComponent | ✅ | Implemented In component.go |
| IBusConfig | 🔴 | Ignored, not implemented |
| IBusConfigService | 🔴 | Ignored, not implemented |
| IBusEngine | ✅ | Implemented In engine.go |
| IBusEngineDesc | ✅ | Implemented In engineDesc.go |
| IBusFactory | ✅ | Implemented In factory.go |
| IBusHotkeyProfile | 🔴 | Ignored, not implemented |
| IBusInputContext | 🔵 | Ignored, relevant inherited signals implemented in Engine |
| IBusKeymap | 🔵 | Ignored for now, will implement |
| IBusLookupTable | ✅ | Implemented In lookupTable.go |
| IBusObject | ✅ | Ignored, Parent/Interface class, relevant inherited signals implemented in Engine |
| IBusObservedPath | 🔴 | Ignored, not implemented |
| IBusPanelService | 🔴 | Ignored, not implemented |
| IBusPropList | ✅ | Implemented In property.go |
| IBusProperty | ✅ | Implemented In property.go |
| IBusProxy | 🔴 | Ignored, not implemented |
| IBusRegistry | 🔴 | Ignored, not implemented |
| IBusSerializable | ✅ | Not needed in golang, All implemented classes are Serializable |
| IBusService | ✅ | Ignored, not needed. Parent/Interface class |
| IBusText | ✅ | Implemented In text.go |
go get github.com/godbus/dbus
go get github.com/sarim/goibus
check _example directory for a sample engine and ~~ TODO:detailed tutorial ~~. Run the sample engine by _example -standalone to see it in action.
goibus - golang implementation of libibus by Sarim Khan
Licensed under Mozilla Public License 1.1 ("MPL"), an open source/free software license.