[PATCH] virtual-keyboard: Add new virtual keyboard protocol

[Dorota Czaplejewicz]

Provides the ability to emulate keyboards by applications. Complementary to input-method protocol.

The interface is a mirror copy of wl_keyboard, with removed serials, and added seat binding.
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This proposal is another one needed by Purism to support on screen keyboards on a phone screen.

Virtual-keyboard is a protocol to let applications send arbitrary keyboard events. The need for this protocol comes from the fact that the input-method protocol combines two separate input responsibilities. It currently deals both with text input and raw keyboard events. I hope to split input-method along this line into virtual-keyboard and the rest of input-method. I'm going to submit the updated input-method for review soon.

Applications should be able to control both interfaces at the same time. A screen keyboard supporting autocorrect (input-method) still wants to send arrow keys (vityual-keyboard) correctly. Because of this, both kinds of events at minimum must be sent to the same seat. I made the seat binding explicitly done by the application, taking inspiration from text-input protocol, which assumes per-seat binding as well.

Input welcome.

Cheers,
Dorota

 Makefile.am                                        |  1 +
 .../virtual-keyboard-unstable-v1.xml               | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 98 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 unstable/virtual-keyboard/virtual-keyboard-unstable-v1.xml

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 4b9a901..51a47a2 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ unstable_protocols =								\
 	unstable/keyboard-shortcuts-inhibit/keyboard-shortcuts-inhibit-unstable-v1.xml \
 	unstable/xdg-output/xdg-output-unstable-v1.xml				\
 	unstable/input-timestamps/input-timestamps-unstable-v1.xml	\
+	nstable/virtual-keyboard/virtual-keyboard-unstable-v1.xml	\
 	$(NULL)
 
 stable_protocols =								\
diff --git a/unstable/virtual-keyboard/virtual-keyboard-unstable-v1.xml b/unstable/virtual-keyboard/virtual-keyboard-unstable-v1.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..18130e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/unstable/virtual-keyboard/virtual-keyboard-unstable-v1.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<protocol name="virtual_keyboard_unstable_v1">
+  <copyright>
+    Copyright © 2008-2011  Kristian Høgsberg
+    Copyright © 2010-2013  Intel Corporation
+    Copyright © 2012-2013  Collabora, Ltd.
+    Copyright © 2018       Purism SPC
+
+    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+    copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+    to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+    the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+    and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+    Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+    The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
+    paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
+    Software.
+
+    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+    IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+    FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
+    THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+    LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+    FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
+    DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+  </copyright>
+
+  <interface name="zwp_virtual_keyboard_v1" version="1">
+    <description summary="virtual keyboard">
+      The virtual keyboard provides an application with requests which emulate
+      the behaviour of a physical keyboard.
+
+      This interface can be used by clients on its own to provide raw input
+      events, or it can accompany the input method protocol.
+    </description>
+
+    <request name="keymap">
+      <description summary="keyboard mapping">
+        Provide a file descriptor to the compositor which can be
+        memory-mapped to provide a keyboard mapping description.
+      </description>
+      <arg name="format" type="uint" enum="keymap_format" summary="keymap format"/>
+      <arg name="fd" type="fd" summary="keymap file descriptor"/>
+      <arg name="size" type="uint" summary="keymap size, in bytes"/>
+    </request>
+
+    <request name="key">
+      <description summary="key event">
+        A key was pressed or released.
+        The time argument is a timestamp with millisecond granularity, with an
+        undefined base. All requests regarding a single object must share the
+        same clock.
+      </description>
+      <arg name="time" type="uint" summary="timestamp with millisecond granularity"/>
+      <arg name="key" type="uint" summary="key that produced the event"/>
+      <arg name="state" type="uint" enum="key_state" summary="physical state of the key"/>
+    </request>
+
+    <request name="modifiers">
+      <description summary="modifier and group state">
+        Notifies the compositor that the modifier and/or group state has
+        changed, and it should update state.
+
+        The client should use wl_keyboard.modifiers event to synchronize its
+        internal state with seat state.
+      </description>
+      <arg name="mods_depressed" type="uint" summary="depressed modifiers"/>
+      <arg name="mods_latched" type="uint" summary="latched modifiers"/>
+      <arg name="mods_locked" type="uint" summary="locked modifiers"/>
+      <arg name="group" type="uint" summary="keyboard layout"/>
+    </request>
+
+    <request name="destroy" type="destructor" since="1">
+      <description summary="destroy the virtual keyboard keyboard object"/>
+    </request>
+  </interface>
+
+  <interface name="zwp_virtual_keyboard_manager_v1" version="1">
+    <description summary="virtual keyboard manager">
+      A virtual keyboard manager allows an application to provide keyboard
+      input events as if they came from a physical keyboard.
+    </description>
+
+    <request name="create_virtual_keyboard">
+      <description summary="Create a new virtual keyboard">
+        Creates a new virtual keyboard associated to a seat.
+
+        If the compositor enables a keyboard to perform arbitrary actions, it
+        should present an error when an untrusted client requests a new
+        keyboard.
+      </description>
+      <arg name="seat" type="object" interface="wl_seat"/>
+      <arg name="id" type="new_id" interface="zwp_virtual_keyboard_v1"/>
+    </request>
+  </interface>
+</protocol>
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