Planning Keyboard Emulation Feature

[Albert Vaca]

Hello Ahmed,

Did you make any progress with this? I think that as a first step you could
implement a simpler version, adding a button to show the keyboard instead
of doing it automatically. What do you think?

Cheers,
Albert
On Jul 7, 2014 2:06 AM, "Aleix Pol" <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Ahmed Ibrahim Khalil <
> ahmedibrahimkhali at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm planning to add Keyboard emulation to KDEConnect.
>>
>> What I am thinking of is that, While the user is opening the Mousepad
>> activity. And he begins to focus on a text field, in KDE (either via
>> mousepad or via hardware mouse), The soft keyboard is shown on his phone
>> automatically to begin typing, and all his key presses is written on the
>> focused text field.
>>
>> If the user focuses out of the text field, the soft keyboard is hidden
>> automatically from the phone.
>>
>> I tried to write a proof of concept to listen for the focus events in the
>> whole KDE desktop, using the
>> X Input Method, and setting the input focus on the XDefaultRootWindow to
>> listen for FocusIn and FocusOut events, but nothing is fired.
>>
>> I'll post the code that I've tried [1], maybe someone could help me
>> figuring out, how to listen for the focus events on all KDE desktop.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> [1] http://pastebin.com/6uq96KUr
>>
>
> Hi Ahmed,
> I agree that this would be really nice, to get the keyboard when the focus
> is received.
>
> I'm pretty sure you can find your answer in the maiit code [1], or at
> least use it as a way to retrieve this kind of data. Maliit is hte project
> they created for the N9 keyboard, used by Plasma Active and Jolla. I'm
> unsure if it shows a different keyboard per app or what, though.
>
> Aleix
>
> [1] https://github.com/maliit
>
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