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

[Martin Steigerwald]

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer - 27.06.21, 15:58:52 CEST:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 at 23:54, Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info> 
> wrote:
> > 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!).
> 
> I'm afraid I'm in the same exact position as you :-/
> 
> Worst case scenario: we push it to unstable and see what happens, if
> it starts getting lots of bugs then we forward them to upstream, and
> if there is no feedback, we remove it.
> 
> But of course,if someone more knowledgeable can help us,the better.

I tested it from Norbert's repo and it basically works.

You need Plasma Wayland and the adjustments in:

https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2021/03/using-maliit-keyboard-in-a-plasma-wayland-session/

Maybe good to put the link to the blog post and maybe some writing 
around that in README.Debian or so, so people know how to set it up.

If you like I try to prepare a patch.

Best,
-- 
Martin