Maliit on-screen keyboard

[dsd]

We're planning to include the maliit on-screen keyboard as part of the touch support in 13.1.0.

Fedora packages being reviewed at:

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848139
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848142

There are some pending integration issues: hide the keyboard when the laptop is in laptop-mode, don't show the keyboard on laptops without touch.

Simon also is planning to land the Sugar shell GTK3 port before addressing this.

olpc-session will also need to be modified to set GTK_IM_MODULE. This will override some features and bug workarounds that are already there; we need to study the impacts of that.

[dsd]

Fedora package review complete.

[dsd]

These packages are now in Fedora, not yet built officially on ARM, but I've placed my own builds in public_rpms. They will be included in the next build.

(That's me done here for now - unless I'm explicitly asked for help, don't assume I'm working on the remaining integration items)

[pbrobinson]

built in Fedora on ARM

now in os4

[erikos]

In build 4 we do miss the immodules, missing packages are: maliit-framework-gtk2 and maliit-framework-gtk3

For the gtk2 immodules the cache has not been updated (for gtk3 it has been). A simple test will show this:

- install examples: maliit-framework-examples (this is not signed yet)

- set the env variable: export GTK_IM_MODULE=Maliit

- run: maliit-exampleapp-gtk3

---> clicking in an entry will reveal the keyboard automatically

- run: maliit-exampleapp-gtk2

---> clicking in an entry does NOT reveal the keyboard automatically, I can manually reveal it using the show button in the test app

- update the cache: gtk-query-immodules-2.0-32 > /etc/gtk-2.0/armv7hl-redhat-linux-gnu/gtk.immodules

run: maliit-exampleapp-gtk2

---> clicking in an entry does reveal the keyboard automatically

Background info:

The query script for GTK+ 3 is: http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.0/gtk-query-immodules-3.0.html

The one for GTK+ 2 is: http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/2.24/gtk-query-immodules-2.0.html

The cache in Fedora for GTK+ 3 is placed in "/usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules.cache" this works fine for the rpms.

For the cache in Fedora for GTK+ 2 "/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/gtk.immodules" should work, but doesn't, "/etc/gtk-2.0/armv7hl-redhat-linux-gnu/gtk.immodules" does. This path is as well listed at [1] to be the correct one.

The Gtkmodules_packaging_guideline [2][3] gives the following instructions for updating the cache.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/InputMethods#GTK_IM_modules [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#GTK.2B_modules [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Archive:Gtkmodules_packaging_guideline_%28draft%29

[erikos]

I think we miss as well the styling bits from Gary.

And as stated above we are missing some rpms for the immodules, they are not in Daniels repo http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/public_rpms/f18/. Did we use that for os4 but will use http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=95206 for os5?

[dsd]

Added the missing packages for the next build, I'll leave the cache fixing up to Peter.

[erikos]

I confirm that screen rotation works with the OSK in os4, those bits have landed fine in the rpm.

[dsd]

Upstream discussion on evdev permissions: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg22771.html

Maliit patch for only showing the keyboard when in tablet mode: https://bugs.maliit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193 (pending review)

[pbrobinson]

OK from the gtk2 side of things we've sorted the problem. It's fixed in maliit-framework-0.92.5-2.fc* which is now building and we'll have it in the next build.

Outstanding now are: - Gary's patch against 0.92.5 for layouts - support for evdev to detect the ebook mode

[erikos]

Replying to pbrobinson:

OK from the gtk2 side of things we've sorted the problem. It's fixed in maliit-framework-0.92.5-2.fc* which is now building and we'll have it in the next build.

Fixed in os5.

Outstanding now are: - Gary's patch against 0.92.5 for layouts

Gary's patch was included as well.

- support for evdev to detect the ebook mode

Yes, is in the trusted hands of Daniel.

[dsd]

maliit-framework-0.92.5.1 includes the evdev thing, and olpc-utils-3.0.4 activates the OSK and sets appropriate permissions on the evdev devices.

[dsd]

Test in 13.1.0 build 6

[erikos]

Thanks Daniel for working on this.

The OSK will only be shown automatically when in ebook mode.

We have an edge case that is not triggered yet correctly. There is a Frame device that does reveal the OSK manually. We do use the glib API for that http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/b7997ef33011283690c9a3d24d54fb7050316e5c. That should allow to reveal the OSK as well in laptop mode. Since the last fix that does only work in ebook mode.

[erikos]

Replying to erikos:

Thanks Daniel for working on this. The OSK will only be shown automatically when in ebook mode. We have an edge case that is not triggered yet correctly. There is a Frame device that does reveal the OSK manually. We do use the glib API for that http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/b7997ef33011283690c9a3d24d54fb7050316e5c. That should allow to reveal the OSK as well in laptop mode. Since the last fix that does only work in ebook mode.

Filed as http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4142

[dsd]

We have adequate other tickets describing the current issues with maliit, so lets move towards closing this one, unless Sam wants to perform any specific QA tasks first...

[greenfeld]

There has been a maliit keyboard in-build for XO-4 and XO-1.75 for quite some time.