Hello,

Since several of the older, webkit-based browsers either have
been, or are currently in the process of being retired, I switched
from xombrero to qutebrowser and noticed a small issue.

I have inputmethods/uim working in all other applications by
virtue of having the following ports installed: 

uim-1.8.6p1         multilingual input method library
uim-gtk-1.8.6p1     uim for GTK+2
uim-gtk3-1.8.6p2    uim for GTK+3
uim-qt-1.8.6p1      uim for QT3
uim-qt4-1.8.6p1     uim for QT4

However, UIM does not work at all in qutebrowser.

I'm assuming this is probably because qutebrowser uses PyQt5 and
there is currently no QT5-based plugin for UIM being built.  From
looking at the source, it seems like the support is there [1] but
the qt5 directory is not bundled with the latest 1.8.6 release of
UIM.  It also looks like the last official release of UIM was in
2013, even though the last commit was in Nov. 2016. [2]

It looks like Debian is pulling from a github snapshot to build
uim-qt5 [3].

I know that beggars can't be choosers, but if anyone on the QT5
porting team is willing to continue the great effort they've put
into getting so much of it working on OpenBSD by porting over the
QT5 module for UIM too, I (and probably other users) would be very
grateful.

[1]     https://github.com/uim/uim/tree/master/qt5
[2]     https://github.com/uim/uim/releases
[3]     https://packages.debian.org/sid/uim-qt5

-- 
Bryan

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