Bug#1007011: openboard: Should provide a working virtual keyboard by default

[Yvan Masson]

Package: openboard
X-Debbugs-Cc: y...@masson-informatique.fr
Version: 1.6.1+dfsg2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainers,





To provide a better user experience by default, I suggest either that:
- openboard package recommends onboard package
- openboard is configured by default to use the internal virtual keyboard

I admit that none of these option is perfect:

- the internal keyboard does not work when outside of OpenBoard



Regards,
Yvan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)

Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages openboard depends on:
ii  libavcodec58              7:4.4.1-3
ii  libavformat58             7:4.4.1-3
ii  libavutil56               7:4.4.1-3
ii  libc6                     2.33-7
ii  libgcc-s1                 11.2.0-16
ii  libgomp1                  11.2.0-16
ii  libpoppler102             20.09.0-3.1
ii  libqt5core5a              5.15.2+dfsg-15
ii  libqt5gui5                5.15.2+dfsg-15
ii  libqt5multimedia5         5.15.2-3
ii  libqt5multimediawidgets5  5.15.2-3
ii  libqt5network5            5.15.2+dfsg-15
ii  libqt5svg5                5.15.2-4
ii  libqt5webkit5             5.212.0~alpha4-14
ii  libqt5widgets5            5.15.2+dfsg-15
ii  libqt5xml5                5.15.2+dfsg-15
ii  libquazip5-1              0.9.1-2
ii  libssl1.1                 1.1.1m-1
ii  libstdc++6                11.2.0-16
ii  libswresample3            7:4.4.1-3
ii  libswscale5               7:4.4.1-3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.7.2-2+b1
ii  openboard-common          1.6.1+dfsg2-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.11.dfsg-2

openboard recommends no packages.

Versions of packages openboard suggests:
ii  openboard-contrib  1.6.1+dfsg2-1

-- no debconf information

OpenBoard can use the system virtual keyboard, or can provide its own virtual keyboard implementation. By default, the system virtual keyboard is selected in the preferences. It is also written that the system virtual keyboard should be preferred over the internal one. However, when system keyboard is chosen, OpenBoard only tries to launch the virtual keyboard named OnBoard (correct me if I am wrong), and fails without any error message if it is not installed. - OnBoard has important bugs (at least I faced some) and does not seem to be really maintained by upstream. Anyway, I think any of the above suggestion would be better than the current situation. Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set

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