on screen keyboard weird bug (kwin?)

[Arjen Hiemstra]

On Thursday 21 July 2011 11:41:39 Marco Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
> in plasma-mobile we have right now a little on screen keyboard application
> that works in the following way:
> it's a dock window, that always refuses focus, and when clicking on the
> keys, it sends the corresponding keystroke on the current focused window...
> and where Qt doesn't support multitouch it works just fine..
> however in Meego, when a touchevent arrives, that dock window takes the
> focus anyways, breaking the keyboard...
> 
> another weird thing, is that this happens only if the first input event
> after the window appeared is a touch one, if is a normal mouse event,
> subsequent events from the touch screen won't give the window active focus
> 
> now, i'm not sure if it's a problem in X, in Qt or in KWin (or due to some
> patches that there are just in MeeGo)
> 
> i know it is a tough question, but there is something that comes to mind in
> KWin that could treat touch events different from mouse events regarding
> focus?

Hmm, might it be related to https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20366
 ? That one causes, among others, a bug where the first tap will be ignored. It 
sounds similar to this issue.

- Arjen