Task Proposal: Virtual Keyboard Improvements

[Aaron J. Seigo]

User Story
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When there is a text edit area on screen, it should be possible to enter new 
text and edit the text that is there using the on screen keyboard. Touching a 
text edit area brings up the keyboard. It should be possible to use multiple 
keyboard layouts; access numbers, symbols and accented letters; avoid covering 
the editing area, etc.

Why this is important
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Without a keyboard, text input is impossible; the better the keyboard is, the 
better the text input experience will be and given that this is an extremely 
common use case is an important item.

Proposed implementation
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1) Write a keyboard layout description file to QML converter which would, using 
the Maliit keyboard layout descriptions and the C++ library to access them the 
Maliit project has written. This would give us a set of QML files that can be 
loaded directly into a keyboard shell, and this QML should use Plasma Qt 
Components

2) Write a Maliit plugin that loads these QML files and provides integration 
with things such as switching layouts, etc.

This will get us support for non-Qt apps, edit area avoidance, ability for 
apps to request specific layout types and other advanced features for "free". 
It will add a Maliit dependency, however. The Maliit developers have been 
extremely supportive and open so far, and we are holding monthly meetings with 
them.

Task Details
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Owned by: Aaron Seigo
Effort Estimation: 4
Task dependencies: None.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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