[PATCH_v2] virtual-keyboard: Add new virtual keyboard protocol

Jan Arne Petersen janarne at gmail.com
Wed May 30 08:05:52 UTC 2018


Hey,

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 9:33 AM Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 08:27:29PM +0200, Dorota Czaplejewicz wrote:
> > 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.
> > ---

I do not really understand for what this protocol is useful, trying to map
a virtual keyboard to a physical keyboard seems to be extremely limiting
and I do not see really use-cases for it. If you want to be able to send
non-text from a virtual keyboard to an application it makes more sense to
have some protocol to send keysyms for example.

Regards
Jan Arne Petersen


More information about the wayland-devel mailing list