(fwd) Maliit as Plasma's on-screen keyboard

[Norbert Preining]

Hi all,

what do you think about this?

I have alredy taken the Neon packaging and adjusted/cleaned up a bit and
have local repositories of maliit-framework and maliit-keyboard, but I
am a bit hesitant since it installs a default LC_ALL handler for xinput,
and I am not really knowledgable about all the input quirks (that is
actually a huge pain!).

Best

Norbert

----- Forwarded message from Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> -----

> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 16:37:46 +0200
> From: Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>
> To: kde-distro-packagers at kde.org
> Cc: "plasma-devel at kde.org" <plasma-devel at kde.org>
> Subject: Maliit as Plasma's on-screen keyboard
> 
> Dear distros,
> It's been pointed out to me that we never formally explained our
> relationship with Maliit Keyboard and some are not packaging it yet.
> 
> Some time ago we switched our Plasma Wayland from using a built-in Qt
> VirtualKeyboard instance to use the standard input_method_v1 protocol.
> For this we have been mostly testing using the Maliit Keyboard.
> 
> https://github.com/maliit/keyboard/
> 
> We (Plasma) would recommend making it available to your users if you
> support touch screen devices based on Wayland. Having it available by
> default would be a nice touch.
> 
> To my knowledge, this has been used for a while now by Plasma Mobile
> and it should be possible to have it packaged easily.
> 
> Thanks!
> Aleix
> 

----- End forwarded message -----

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