I sent an e-mail to kde-distro-packag...@kde.org. Hopefully they'll pick up on that. :)
Thanks Jonathan! Aleix On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 9:43 PM Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote: > > 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 >>
