| Summary: | A way to show the virtual keyboard manually, without necessarily using a touch device | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Alexander <alexander.reimelt> |
| Component: | Input Method | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | ASSIGNED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | aleixpol, bri59mess, bugs.kde.org, chris, kde_bugs, m1vri31c, markcapella, nate, postix, putr4.s, schmakerisko, xwaang1976 |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 5.27.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467209 | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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| Bug Depends on: | 467302 | ||
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Description
Alexander
2023-03-06 15:37:34 UTC
Yeah, right now when KWin receives the signal to show the virtual keyboard, it ignores it if the input event associated with it wasn't a touch event. This is done to prevent the virtual keyboard from appearing constantly in response to automatic or manually-driven focus events when using a keyboard or pointing device, which would drive people crazy. But, it also prevents the virtual keyboard from being openable manually, as a deliberate user action. We'll probably need a new way to communicate to KWin that we want to force it to show anyway with no event filtering, and then a "Show/hide virtual keyboard" button can use that. *** Bug 460823 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/2780 Git commit 508b6710653fd5896d2046561f8ab41aa951cf68 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Alexander Volkov. Committed on 28/03/2023 at 14:57. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. components/keyboardlayout: Fix forced activation of vkbd We have to register for the metatype to call it from here. M +7 -0 components/keyboardlayout/keyboardlayoutplugin.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/508b6710653fd5896d2046561f8ab41aa951cf68 A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/2781 Git commit 9d4b9cf547037cbb3b4aaf7c21ad08f75ea98f48 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Alexander Volkov. Committed on 28/03/2023 at 14:59. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/5.27'. components/keyboardlayout: Fix forced activation of vkbd We have to register for the metatype to call it from here. (cherry picked from commit 508b6710653fd5896d2046561f8ab41aa951cf68) M +7 -0 components/keyboardlayout/keyboardlayoutplugin.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/9d4b9cf547037cbb3b4aaf7c21ad08f75ea98f48 *** Bug 477160 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 477207 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 488346 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Bug 488346 included a request to quickly force open the on-screen keyboard by swiping up from the bottom of the screen (like Gnome does). I'd also love to see that feature, but hesitate to file another bug, given that one was already marked as a dup of this (which doesn't appear to cover that functionality). |