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#160 Consider reviving and installing kvkbd for accessibilty
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From https://quickfix.es/2022/01/whos-important/, we should consider reviving and installing kvkbd for accessibilty:

  • https://github.com/KDE/kvkbd
  • https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kvkbd
  • Not found on https://invent.kde.org/explore?name=kvkbd&sort=created_asc

The invent link is https://invent.kde.org/unmaintained/kvkbd, but that's no different to the github repo.

The code is still on KDE4 level and doesn't have any kind of Wayland support. Without that it would be a non-starter. Technically it should be possible to implement input_method_v1 (like Maliit does), but I'm not sure this is really suitable for such a keyboard. Perhaps https://wayland.app/protocols/virtual-keyboard-unstable-v1 would be more suitable, but KWin currently has no support for it

@nicolasfella Thanks for the details! Looks like this needs a bit of work before we can include it.
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