A proper on screen keyboard would be great [LWN.net]

A proper on screen keyboard would be great

Posted Oct 3, 2024 8:24 UTC (Thu) by callegar (guest, #16148)
Parent article: KDE sets its goals through 2026

I is great to see KDE planning and accelerating its development. What I think should be prominent on the drawing board is a proper on screen keyboard (OSK). The current solution `maliit` is almost unusable with applications that are not touch-native, because it only hosts alphabetic and numerical keys without any control or special key (i.e. a terminal layout is missing and there are no application specific overlays either). So it is not possible to use a terminal and it is not possible to use many (most) GUI applications either that may still need key combinations or accelerators (most editors, and a lot of drawing software, for instance). As a consequence, with a 2-in-1 computer (when the physical keyboard is detached) or with a tablet you cannot even do many basic things that you can do on Android.

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A proper on screen keyboard would be great

Posted Oct 3, 2024 13:36 UTC (Thu) by jpetso (subscriber, #36230) [Link]

True, the Maliit situation is known to need improvement. The input goal proposal mentions this specifically, it's one of the things that (as elected goal champion and developer) I want to tackle personally.

Unless another motivated developer shows up first, of course - we're happy to distribute the workload among contributors and provide mentorship where necessary, so the ambitious proposal has a chance at all of its items getting tackled within the next two years. Follow the link to the goal proposal and find our Matrix room at the bottom to join the effort :)