Maliit Keyboard and Plasma

[Jonathan Riddell]

Is this page obsolete now we have the kwin virtual keyboard kcm?
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/wikis/Virtual-Keyboard

Jonathan


On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 19:17, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:

> It's unclear to me if Plasma expects or needs Maliit to be installed.
>
> It's discussed here that "The built-in keyboard was dropped in 5.20 in
> favor of external virtual keyboards."
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427972
>
> And of course users on tablet style machines
>
> So should we have maliit installed by default?  Should this be added as a
> cmake runtime check somewhere?  Should distros be told?  It doesn't seem to
> be a lot of distros looking at repology
> https://repology.org/project/maliit-keyboard/versions
>
> Jonathan
>
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