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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: On-screen keyboard on plasma
From:       Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin () kde ! org>
Date:       2016-09-13 5:47:15
Message-ID: 1518845.DJiJU2ovTm () martin-desktop
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On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 1:41:36 AM CEST Aleix Pol wrote:
> Hello,
> Recently a convertible appeared on my hands. I was looking into seeing
> how it works with Plasma.
> Then I eventually wanted to type something.
> 
> I'm not sure if having a keyboard is just unsupported or I'm missing
> something. Can I have some pointers?

You need:
* Qt 5.7
* QtVirtualKeyboard module installed
* Wayland session

With that combination you can have the virtual keyboard to show for Qt 
(Wayland) applications. The keyboard shows automatically if there is no 
hardware alpha-numeric keyboard attached (idea here is that with a convertible 
we disable the keyboard when switching to tablet mode). Otherwise there is a 
SNI in the hidden section where you can enable it.

Further plans:
* Make it work on lockscreen
* Ensure keyboard doesn't cover windows
* Add maliit support for GTK and X applications
* bring it to X11 (only makes sense with maliit)

Cheers
Martin

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