Please package qtvirtualkeyboard

[Fabian Vogt]

Hi!

Am Donnerstag, 2. M?rz 2017, 20:51:56 CET schrieb Martin Gr??lin:
> Hi distros,
> 
> please start packaging qtvirtualkeyboard if you have not already done 
> so. This is already an optional dependency in KWin and with Plasma 5.10 
> we will prominently ship the virtual keyboard in the lockscreen.
> 
> Please also ensure that all locales for the keyboard are available. 
> Currently we don't offer a possibility to input east-asian characters in 
> the lock screen and the virtual keyboard will hopefully improve this. 
> Unfortunately I couldn't test yet as the distro I use on one system 
> doesn't package qtvirtualkeyboard yet and the distro on the other system 
> only packages the English locale.

In openSUSE we enabled all locales that do not require bundled third-party
components. That the package does not even search for system libs is just
awful and it even compiles them in statically, which is not great at all.

> With Plasma 5.10 the qtvirtualkeyboard will stay optional, with Plasma 
> 5.11 I will make it a hard dependency. So please start packaging.

Hard dependency during buildtime or runtime?
Only a minority of users will actually use it.

Cheers,
Fabian

> 
> Cheers
> Martin
>