Maliit Keyboard and Plasma

[Aleix Pol]

I sent an e-mail to kde-distro-packagers at kde.org. Hopefully they'll
pick up on that. :)

Thanks Jonathan!


Aleix

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 9:43 PM Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>>