247777 - firefox needs input method menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 164793

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Greg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 Firefox/0.9

Firefox should use (I don't know about the feasibility of this) the Pango input
method system like all GNOME apps.  In other apps, a right click on an input
field brings up a menu with input methods (Cyrillic Transliterated, Vietnamese,
etc.) as well as Unicode controls.  Firefox should use this or at least have
similar functionality.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.right click on input field
2.compare menu to GNOME menu
3.note absence of input method support

Actual Results:  
There was no input method support.

Expected Results:  
Presented me with a list of options similar to Gnome's.

It's a minor thing, but people like me who use the Transliterated Cyrillic input
method in e.g. Galeon or Epiphany often miss it sorely in firefox.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

There's a lot of discussion about Pango in bug 215219 and bug 214715, although
not about the input method.

Comment 2

[basic]

would be nice to have this in moz as well, would this be considered part of the
textbox widget? Right now if you have a hotkey for switching input methods, it
works, but having a menu would be nicer.

Comment 3

[basic]

my guess this is a dup of bug 214412 or at least depend on it

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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