Maliit Keyboard and Plasma

[Nicolas Fella]

Hi,

On 24/06/2021 20:17, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> It's unclear to me if Plasma expects or needs Maliit to be installed.

Technically speaking it does not expect Maliit, any keyboard
implementing the required Wayland protocol will do. Maliit happens to be
the one we tend to test and it's what we ship on Plasma Mobile, so it
would be my default recommendation.

>
> 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
> <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?

Yes

>   Should this be added as a cmake runtime check somewhere?

That's a bit harder to answer since technically any compliant keyboard
will do

>   Should distros be told?  It doesn't seem to be a lot of distros
> looking at repology
> https://repology.org/project/maliit-keyboard/versions
> <https://repology.org/project/maliit-keyboard/versions>

yes.

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

The information is still accurate, it's how the KCM works under the
hood. It's just not as relevant any more as it used to be.

>
> Jonathan
>
Cheers

Nico