<div dir="ltr"><div>Great thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Someone should tell the distros to ship it then, unless I missed that.</div><br><div>Jonathan</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 20:21, Nicolas Fella <<a href="mailto:nicolas.fella@gmx.de">nicolas.fella@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
On 24/06/2021 20:17, Jonathan Riddell wrote:<br>
> It's unclear to me if Plasma expects or needs Maliit to be installed.<br>
<br>
Technically speaking it does not expect Maliit, any keyboard<br>
implementing the required Wayland protocol will do. Maliit happens to be<br>
the one we tend to test and it's what we ship on Plasma Mobile, so it<br>
would be my default recommendation.<br>
<br>
><br>
> It's discussed here that "The built-in keyboard was dropped in 5.20 in<br>
> favor of external virtual keyboards."<br>
> <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427972" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427972</a><br>
> <<a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427972" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427972</a>><br>
><br>
> And of course users on tablet style machines<br>
><br>
> So should we have maliit installed by default?<br>
<br>
Yes<br>
<br>
> Should this be added as a cmake runtime check somewhere?<br>
<br>
That's a bit harder to answer since technically any compliant keyboard<br>
will do<br>
<br>
> Should distros be told? It doesn't seem to be a lot of distros<br>
> looking at repology<br>
> <a href="https://repology.org/project/maliit-keyboard/versions" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://repology.org/project/maliit-keyboard/versions</a><br>
> <<a href="https://repology.org/project/maliit-keyboard/versions" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://repology.org/project/maliit-keyboard/versions</a>><br>
<br>
yes.<br>
<br>
> Is this page obsolete now we have the kwin virtual keyboard<br>
kcm?<a href="https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/wikis/Virtual-Keyboard" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/wikis/Virtual-Keyboard</a><br>
<<a href="https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/wikis/Virtual-Keyboard" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/wikis/Virtual-Keyboard</a>><br>
<br>
The information is still accurate, it's how the KCM works under the<br>
hood. It's just not as relevant any more as it used to be.<br>
<br>
><br>
> Jonathan<br>
><br>
Cheers<br>
<br>
Nico<br>
<br>
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