Maliit as Plasma's on-screen keyboard

[Tobias C. Berner]

Moin moin

I'm a bit concerned about it seeming to be built on a stack of
abandonware -- qtfeedback (no release), and presage (2015).


mfg Tobias

On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 at 16:38, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Dear distros,
> It's been pointed out to me that we never formally explained our
> relationship with Maliit Keyboard and some are not packaging it yet.
>
> Some time ago we switched our Plasma Wayland from using a built-in Qt
> VirtualKeyboard instance to use the standard input_method_v1 protocol.
> For this we have been mostly testing using the Maliit Keyboard.
>
> https://github.com/maliit/keyboard/
>
> We (Plasma) would recommend making it available to your users if you
> support touch screen devices based on Wayland. Having it available by
> default would be a nice touch.
>
> To my knowledge, this has been used for a while now by Plasma Mobile
> and it should be possible to have it packaged easily.
>
> Thanks!
> Aleix