Bug 439926

Summary: Virtual keyboard applet should become visible in the System Tray by default when in tablet mode and/or when there is no physical keyboard
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Thiago Sueto <herzenschein>
Component: System Tray widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: ahiemstra, aleixpol, materka, nate
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability, wayland-only
Version First Reported In: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 5.23
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Description Thiago Sueto 2021-07-16 00:31:51 UTC 
At first it is rather confusing how to make the virtual keyboard open after installing it and enabling it in the KCM.

That is so because it's hidden in the system tray among many other items by default. The user needs to pay particular attention when opening the tray to notice there is an additional tray icon for virtual keyboards, or already know it's there. It is not particularly discoverable.

IMO the virtual keyboard icon should either be always visible once a virtual keyboard is found or be set to be visible once the user enters tablet mode. This makes the icon discoverable and easy to touch/toggle, and might even additionally serve as a tablet mode indicator.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-08-03 21:53:13 UTC 
*** Bug 440570 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Arjen Hiemstra 2021-10-20 12:52:00 UTC 
As far as I can tell this has been resolved with https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/7e2531f33df8ebaf80a1b5ad11ea143c629dfbc1 . Can you confirm?
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-10-21 12:43:15 UTC 
Pretty much.