Maliit as Plasma's on-screen keyboard

[Nicolas Fella]

Hi,

On 28.06.21 09:12, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> Moin moin
>
> I'm a bit concerned about it seeming to be built on a stack of
> abandonware -- qtfeedback (no release), and presage (2015).
>
>
> mfg Tobias
>
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 at 16:38, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>> Dear distros,
>> It's been pointed out to me that we never formally explained our
>> relationship with Maliit Keyboard and some are not packaging it yet.
>>
>> Some time ago we switched our Plasma Wayland from using a built-in Qt
>> VirtualKeyboard instance to use the standard input_method_v1 protocol.
>> For this we have been mostly testing using the Maliit Keyboard.
>>
>> https://github.com/maliit/keyboard/
>>
>> We (Plasma) would recommend making it available to your users if you
>> support touch screen devices based on Wayland. Having it available by
>> default would be a nice touch.
>>
>> To my knowledge, this has been used for a while now by Plasma Mobile
>> and it should be possible to have it packaged easily.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Aleix

qtfeedback is something we use in other places as well and we are
discussing options on how to un-abandon it. One of the discussed options
is importing it under the KDE umbrella. See
https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2021-April/041229.html

Can't comment on presage.

Cheers

Nico