On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 8:17 PM Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote: > > It's unclear to me if Plasma expects or needs Maliit to be installed. > > 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 > > And of course users on tablet style machines > > So should we have maliit installed by default? Should this be added as a > cmake runtime check somewhere? Should distros be told? It doesn't seem to > be a lot of distros looking at repology > https://repology.org/project/maliit-keyboard/versions > > Jonathan >
As of this merge request, maliit wasn't even installable from Discover since it wasn't providing appstream information. It's available now (or it will be when they release). https://github.com/maliit/keyboard/pull/46 That said, shipping it by default would be nice. Aleix
