Provide soft keyboard without Gnome?

nick-shmyrev / improved-osk-gnome-ext

Improved On Screen Keyboard for Gnome Shell

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4413/improved-osk/

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Provide soft keyboard without Gnome? #56

Closed rbreaves closed 1 year ago

rbreaves commented 1 year ago

I have not delved into the source, but what is the likelihood of breaking this out of the dependencies of Gnome? I think this would be far better if it were independent of the DE entirely.

Vishram1123 commented 1 year ago

The problem with GNOME is that Mutter has no support for Wayland's Layer_Shell protocol (see here), so the keyboard has to be tightly integrated with GNOME. In fact, this extension is simply extending and modifying the existing OSK's functionality, so it isn't really possible to break the keyboard free of GNOME.

nick-shmyrev commented 1 year ago

Like @Vishram1123 said, this extension is based on the built-in Gnome OSK. It's basically a set of patches on top of it. So no, there won't be a standalone version.