Bug 146079

Summary:	Virtual keyboard panel for text input
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	antikristian
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bjoern, caionnew, cd_stravers, mboquien, srhaque
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description antikristian 2007-05-28 17:43:30 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I think having a virtual keyboard as a separate panel or program to stick on a panel would make using kde on a tablet a GAZILLION times easier!!
With upcoming MID tablets from intel with adequate cpus to run kde with, it is even more important to have such a thing.

To put it simply: xvkbd just doesn't cut it, a panel or panel-app would be much better.

Comment 1 Médéric Boquien 2008-11-09 00:02:59 UTC

Hello,

There is also viki but i do not know its current status.

Thanks.

Comment 2 Shaheed Haque 2008-11-09 13:09:57 UTC

Viki is still part of KDE, now in the playground, under:

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/utils/viki/
 
I have not done anything on it since porting to Qt4, but it should still work AFAIK.

Comment 3 Shaheed Haque 2008-11-23 16:50:17 UTC

I added a couple of compile fixes, and also bug fixes to the SVN version.

Comment 4 c d stravers 2009-01-06 03:19:22 UTC

I am running openSUSE 11.0 ,. I tried running viki and this was the error:
No keycode for  "AE00". Where can I update this program? The version indicated is "0.0SVNr784595-43.1".

Comment 5 Björn Ruberg 2009-11-11 01:32:17 UTC

There is a plasmoid that exactly add this feature. For KDE 4.3 you find it here:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Plasmaboard?content=101822

The virtual keyboard will be part of KDE 4.4 kdeplasma-addons package. 

Please close this bug.