The first step for enabling off-the-spot IME on Pepper on ChromeOS/Linux.

content/renderer/render_widget.cc

Index: content/renderer/render_widget.cc
diff --git a/content/renderer/render_widget.cc b/content/renderer/render_widget.cc
index 54d787b6cb88688d43ebc400020333a554a7cec4..c5253e10500dac644d57c33ef75f554a67578936 100644
--- a/content/renderer/render_widget.cc
+++ b/content/renderer/render_widget.cc
@@ -1224,10 +1224,7 @@ void RenderWidget::UpdateInputMethod() {
   WebTextInputType new_type = WebKit::WebTextInputTypeNone;
   WebRect new_caret_bounds;
 
-  if (webwidget_) {
-    new_type = webwidget_->textInputType();
-    new_caret_bounds = webwidget_->caretOrSelectionBounds();
-  }
+  GetTextInputType(&new_type, &new_caret_bounds);
 
   // Only sends text input type and caret bounds to the browser process if they
   // are changed.
@@ -1239,6 +1236,14 @@ void RenderWidget::UpdateInputMethod() {
   }
 }
 
+void RenderWidget::GetTextInputType(WebKit::WebTextInputType* type,
+                                    WebKit::WebRect* caret_bounds) {
+  if (webwidget_) {
+    *type = webwidget_->textInputType();
+    *caret_bounds = webwidget_->caretOrSelectionBounds();
+  }
+}
+
 WebScreenInfo RenderWidget::screenInfo() {
   WebScreenInfo results;
   Send(new ViewHostMsg_GetScreenInfo(routing_id_, host_window_, &results));