[ANNOUNCE] kwin-type v0.1 is released

Vlad Zahorodnii vlad.zahorodnii at kde.org
Wed Oct 28 07:59:18 GMT 2026


Hi,

On 10/27/26 5:26 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi again David & Vlad,
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 10:48 PM David Edmundson
> <david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
>> There is a path for libei without portals. It might be a happy medium
>> between avoiding your portal woes and using the API we will support
>> long term.
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 4:39 AM Jason A. Donenfeld <jdonenfeld at kde.org> wrote:
>> This is still KDE-specific, of course. Will the virtual keyboard move
>> over to org.kde.KWin.EIS.RemoteDesktop also?
> In addition to porting kwin-type yesterday following your suggestion,
> I've now removed all internal KDE uses of fake-input:
>
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-keyboard/-/merge_requests/182
> https://invent.kde.org/sdk/selenium-webdriver-at-spi/-/merge_requests/129
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde/-/merge_requests/640
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/krdp/-/merge_requests/288
> https://invent.kde.org/network/krfb/-/merge_requests/111
> plasma-remotecontrollers is archived, but there's a commit anyway just
> in case, that's basically the same as the plasma-keyboard one:
> https://invent.kde.org/jdonenfeld/plasma-remotecontrollers/-/commits/libei

Nice 👍

Vlad



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