qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin and Maliit Qt 5 Dependency in Plasma on Kubuntu 24.04.1

[David Edmundson]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM Marc Jantzen <phonicphotonic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi KDE Plasma Team,
> I’m running KDE Plasma on Ubuntu 24.04.1 with Qt 5.15.13, and I’ve
> noticed an odd thing: the qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin is in the repos (I
> can install it), but it doesn’t seem accessible or functional after
> logging into a Plasma session. I’d expect it to work out of the box
> for virtual keyboard support—am I missing a step, or is something up?

On X11 you can set an environment variable. Experience is not great.
On Wayland, Qt Virtual keyboard plugin won't work. There is some work
in progress on addressing this.

> While digging into this, I also noticed that
> maliit-inputcontext-qt5—the Qt 5 input context plugin for Maliit,
> which feels like a Plasma-friendly choice—seems absent too. I’ve got
> maliit-framework and libmaliit-plugins2 installed, but no Qt
> 5-specific input context shows up. Is this tied to the Qt 6
> transition, a packaging quirk in Noble, or something else? Any insight
> would be awesome—thanks for all your amazing work!

Maliit is the preferred option at present, on wayland it should be
available under system settings -> virtual keyboard  where you can
then choose maliit.

David

> Cheers,
> Marc