Maliit Keyboard and Plasma

[Jonathan Riddell]

Great thanks.

Someone should tell the distros to ship it then, unless I missed that.

Jonathan


On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 20:21, Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fella at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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