Bug 390640

Summary: Remote control keyboard in android app hard to open
Product: [Applications] kdeconnect Reporter: Jonathan Doman <jonathan.doman>
Component: android-applicationAssignee: Albert Vaca Cintora <albertvaka>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: matthijstijink, nicolas.fella
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Android   
OS: Android 7.x   
Latest Commit: https://commits.kde.org/kdeconnect-android/abc5526252f65e660a201f3514f2c3457ff0811a Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Jonathan Doman 2018-02-17 21:33:54 UTC 
KDE Connect v1.7.1, installed from play store

On the remote control screen (to pass input from phone to remote PC), there used to be an icon on the top bar to open the keyboard. Now the keyboard is hidden in the dot menu. I think the button should be restored.

A compounding problem is that the keyboard is hidden whenever the screen is turned off. This might be something peculiar to my phone (Samsung Galaxy S8): in all apps, the keyboard is hidden when the screen turns off, and when the screen turns back on, it takes about 0.5 seconds for the input field to be re-focused and the keyboard reopened. But in KDE Connect, the keyboard does not reopen when the screen turns on (probably it doesn't have a normal input field).

I like to use the keyboard in short bursts to control (non-mpris) multimedia playback on the remote PC. So when I go to use it, I have to 1) turn on screen, 2) tap dot menu, 3) tap show keyboard. Ideally they keyboard should stay up, removing steps 2+3. But it would be good just to remove step 2.
Comment 1 Matthijs Tijink 2018-02-25 11:15:35 UTC 
I've fixed the issue (see https://phabricator.kde.org/D10827).

Regarding your other problem: I don't think there's anything we can do about that, unfortunately.
Comment 2 Matthijs Tijink 2018-02-25 15:41:42 UTC 
Git commit abc5526252f65e660a201f3514f2c3457ff0811a by Matthijs Tijink.
Committed on 25/02/2018 at 15:41.
Pushed by mtijink into branch 'master'.

Put keyboard button in navigation bar when possible

Summary:
In the remote input activity, the keyboard button was in the overflow menu, even though it fit on the navigation bar. The previous code used the wrong namespace, so this fixes it.

Before:
{F5729325}

After:
{F5729326}

Reviewers: #kde_connect, nicolasfella

Reviewed By: #kde_connect, nicolasfella

Subscribers: nicolasfella

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D10827

M  +1    -1    res/menu/menu_mousepad.xml

https://commits.kde.org/kdeconnect-android/abc5526252f65e660a201f3514f2c3457ff0811a