Please package qtvirtualkeyboard

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Fri Mar 3 11:42:44 GMT 2017


On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 08:51:56PM +0100, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> 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.
> 
> With Plasma 5.10 the qtvirtualkeyboard will stay optional, with
> Plasma 5.11 I will make it a hard dependency. So please start
> packaging.

I'm confused by how a locale is included, when I compile it the only files are 
qt5/plugins/platforminputcontexts/libqtvirtualkeyboardplugin.so and qml bits in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/qml/QtQuick/VirtualKeyboard/

Am I missing something?

Jonathan




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