Maliit Keyboard and Plasma

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 8:17 PM 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
>

As of this merge request, maliit wasn't even installable from Discover
since it wasn't providing appstream information. It's available now
(or it will be when they release).
https://github.com/maliit/keyboard/pull/46

That said, shipping it by default would be nice.

Aleix