Maliit Keyboard and Plasma

[Nate Graham]

Indeed, I know it is missing in at least openSUSE TW and Fedora. See:
- https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184014
- https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issue/90

Nate


On 6/24/21 3:42 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> Great thanks.
> 
> Someone should tell the distros to ship it then, unless I missed that.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 20:21, Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fella at gmx.de 
> <mailto:nicolas.fella at gmx.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     On 24/06/2021 20:17, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>      > It's unclear to me if Plasma expects or needs Maliit to be installed.
> 
>     Technically speaking it does not expect Maliit, any keyboard
>     implementing the required Wayland protocol will do. Maliit happens to be
>     the one we tend to test and it's what we ship on Plasma Mobile, so it
>     would be my default recommendation.
> 
>      >
>      > It's discussed here that "The built-in keyboard was dropped in
>     5.20 in
>      > favor of external virtual keyboards."
>      > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427972
>     <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427972>
>      > <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427972
>     <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427972>>
>      >
>      > And of course users on tablet style machines
>      >
>      > So should we have maliit installed by default?
> 
>     Yes
> 
>      >   Should this be added as a cmake runtime check somewhere?
> 
>     That's a bit harder to answer since technically any compliant keyboard
>     will do
> 
>      >   Should distros be told?  It doesn't seem to be a lot of distros
>      > looking at repology
>      > https://repology.org/project/maliit-keyboard/versions
>     <https://repology.org/project/maliit-keyboard/versions>
>      > <https://repology.org/project/maliit-keyboard/versions
>     <https://repology.org/project/maliit-keyboard/versions>>
> 
>     yes.
> 
>       > Is this page obsolete now we have the kwin virtual keyboard
>     kcm?https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/wikis/Virtual-Keyboard
>     <https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/wikis/Virtual-Keyboard>
>     <https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/wikis/Virtual-Keyboard
>     <https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/wikis/Virtual-Keyboard>>
> 
>     The information is still accurate, it's how the KCM works under the
>     hood. It's just not as relevant any more as it used to be.
> 
>      >
>      > Jonathan
>      >
>     Cheers
> 
>     Nico
>