Hi,
this is great news for my 2in1-Laptop!
Thanks
Am Freitag, 21. Juni 2024, 02:52:59 MESZ schrieb Aleix Pol:
> Hi,
> In recent years, we've relied heavily on Maliit as our primary virtual
> keyboard. However, I thought it would be beneficial to develop an
> alternative using QtVirtualKeyboard.
There is an existing maliit plugin that's VERY old that has the
functionality. I'll see if I can find it from my history.
On 24/6/24 17:01, Marco Martin wrote:
On Sunday, 23 June 2024 02.19.52 CEST Aleix Pol wrote:
To be honest, I'm not sure we'll be able to add many features without
adding th
On Sunday, 23 June 2024 02.19.52 CEST Aleix Pol wrote:
> To be honest, I'm not sure we'll be able to add many features without
> adding them upstream, that's a good thing in that we'll get to create
> a good product together with Qt, but we'll also need to coordinate.
> That said, there does indeed
I've created a flatpak manifest that seems to work. There's some issue
with the SDK we have in our CI but it should be addressed easily with
a rebuild.
https://invent.kde.org/apol/qvk/-/merge_requests/1
Meaning that hunspell issues shouldn't be a big issue (I guess it's
part of the freedesktop SDK
To be honest, I'm not sure we'll be able to add many features without
adding them upstream, that's a good thing in that we'll get to create
a good product together with Qt, but we'll also need to coordinate.
That said, there does indeed seem to be good traction in QtVK so
before we need to add new
For anyone else testing:
- you need to set KWIN_IM_SHOW_ALWAYS=1 or have a touchscreen (or mod kwin)
- you need the right hunspell dictionary installed or it just doesn't
send anything
It kinda feels we've gone full circle, Kwin used to do the Qt VK in process.
It's too early to say anything fo
Swipe to type would be an absolutely amazing feature to get. I struggle
to want to use my Linux phone because of this reason. I've checked out
this repo and compiled it and will provide feedback in the coming days.
On 21/6/24 23:12, Devin wrote:
Hey Aleix,
I think this is a very good idea! It
Hey Aleix,
I think this is a very good idea! It could also help isolate any issues that
are specific to the keyboard and not to KWin. Maliit has been pretty slow
moving so it can also be worth trying out some new ideas here (ex. swipe to
type).
Thanks,
Devin
Fr
