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.
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.
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