Great thanks. Someone should tell the distros to ship it then, unless I missed that.
Jonathan On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 20:21, Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fe...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On 24/06/2021 20:17, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > It's unclear to me if Plasma expects or needs Maliit to be installed. > > Technically speaking it does not expect Maliit, any keyboard > implementing the required Wayland protocol will do. Maliit happens to be > the one we tend to test and it's what we ship on Plasma Mobile, so it > would be my default recommendation. > > > > > It's discussed here that "The built-in keyboard was dropped in 5.20 in > > favor of external virtual keyboards." > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427972 > > <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427972> > > > > And of course users on tablet style machines > > > > So should we have maliit installed by default? > > Yes > > > Should this be added as a cmake runtime check somewhere? > > That's a bit harder to answer since technically any compliant keyboard > will do > > > Should distros be told? It doesn't seem to be a lot of distros > > looking at repology > > https://repology.org/project/maliit-keyboard/versions > > <https://repology.org/project/maliit-keyboard/versions> > > yes. > > > Is this page obsolete now we have the kwin virtual keyboard > kcm?https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/wikis/Virtual-Keyboard > <https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/wikis/Virtual-Keyboard> > > The information is still accurate, it's how the KCM works under the > hood. It's just not as relevant any more as it used to be. > > > > > Jonathan > > > Cheers > > Nico > >