Planning Keyboard Emulation Feature

[Ahmed Khalil]

Hi Albert,

Unfortunately, I was busy doing family business which stopped me from progressing on the keyboard emulation.

Anyway, It's great that someone has provided the patch, I'll continue on the focus events research and when I reach a result I'll post a review request that augments the current patch.

Cheers

On July 13, 2014 12:38:57 PM EET, Albert Vaca <albertvaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>Oh, it seems that we received a patch for this already!
>
>https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119254/
>https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119255/
>
>
>On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Albert Vaca <albertvaka at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> 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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