We’re ready! Come and visit our booth at #FOSDEM2025!
We’re in building AW, level 1, showing off the newest version of Plasma, devices, applications and more.
We’re ready! Come and visit our booth at #FOSDEM2025!
We’re in building AW, level 1, showing off the newest version of Plasma, devices, applications and more.
There is osk, and it works.
@nesc Yay! With what Plasma Version will it come?
It’s been there for a long time. 🙃 I think some distros come by default with maliit keyboard, you just need to enable it, or install then enable. Personally I am using corekeyboard, it’s the only one with modifier keys (somehow neither gnome nor kde default ones even allow to modifiers).
@nesc I tested both but both are neiher full sized keyboards nor work wit input methods like fcitx or have issues with key combintion and stuff like that.
I tested 12 OSK for both GNOME and Plasma and this here was the only one that was actually able to replace a full size keyboard in all circumstances
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5949/gjs-osk/
Sadly it only works with GNOME :(
Osk situation is terrible in general, true, with wayland migration it became even worse. But for basics default keyboards for gnome and kde work.
@nesc @vamp898
KDE devs are working on this. It has become a priority of the “We care about your Input” goal.
https://phabricator.kde.org/T17433
We are currently working on implementing a new virtual keyboard called QVK that will built into Plasma:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/qvk
This is great to hear. Maliit does work, but there is a lot of room for improvement.