Qt Virtual Keyboard for (K)Ubuntu?

[Aleix Pol]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 1:44 AM, Valorie Zimmerman <
valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:22 AM, N. W. <nw9165-3201 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > just noticed that Qt Virtual Keyboard has been open sourced this year,
> see:
> >
> > http://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/01/13/new-agreement-with-the-
> kde-free-qt-foundation/
> > http://doc.qt.io/QtVirtualKeyboard/index.html
> > http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtvirtualkeyboard.git/
> > http://plfiorini.blogspot.de/2016/04/qt-virtual-keyboard-
> support-on-hawaii.html
> >
> > Judging from the following two videos, Qt Virtual Keyboard looks
> absolutely amazing and way better than the other virtual onscreen keyboards
> which are currently available from the Ubuntu repository, see:
> >
> > https://youtu.be/yIsQHinTw00
> > https://youtu.be/EyeDZLGIwbM
> >
> > Unfortunately it seems like no Linux distribution has this packaged yet
> :/.
> >
> > Any chance you could package this for Ubuntu and possibly even make it
> the default virtual onscreen keyboard for Kubuntu?
> >
> > Regards
>
> I see that nobody answered this. In general, we only package KDE
> software. If this package 1. is packaged by Debian, and 2. becomes a
> dependency of some KDE software (such as Kwin) then certainly we would
> package it.
>
> You can always package it in a PPA, and offer it for testing, which I
> assume would help in lots of ways.
>
> More help for the packaging team is always welcome!
>

FWIW, I don't think this had hit the mailing list.

Support for this is already integrated with KWin and available on Plasma
with Wayland. I've tested it, it works fine but needs tuning.

Aleix
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