Feature #16182

Evaluate on-screen keyboard on Buster

Added by intrigeri 2018-12-02 22:28:04 . Updated 2019-01-11 17:23:06 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Hardware support
Target version:
Start date:
2018-12-02
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
Test
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
On-screen keyboard
Deliverable for:

Description

See Feature #14713#note-25: verify that these issues were fixed and there’s no regression.


Subtasks


Related issues

Related to Tails - Feature #14713: Discuss and evaluate feedback coming from the Florence removal Resolved 2017-10-03
Blocked by Tails - Bug #16288: No accessibility support in the Greeter on Buster Resolved 2019-01-05

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2018-12-02 22:28:11

  • related to Feature #14713: Discuss and evaluate feedback coming from the Florence removal added

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2018-12-02 22:28:39

  • Affected tool set to On-screen keyboard

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2019-01-05 14:36:02

  • Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress
  • % Done changed from 0 to 10

intrigeri wrote:
> intrigeri wrote:
> > * on-screen keyboard can hide windows: we knew that when discussing Feature #8281, tracked upstream and mentioned on the upstream design page already
>
> The GNOME 3.28 Release Notes state that now “the view is shifted to ensure that the text area is visible while typing” so this won’t be a problem anymore in Tails 4.0, based on Buster :)

Confirmed, works fine on feature/buster \o/

> > * no way to change layout: we knew that when discussing Feature #8281, already tracked upstream; Alan reported some progress about this on Feature #8281, no idea what’s the status, I’ll let Alan report on the ticket we have about monitoring this upstream
>
> In GNOME 3.28 “a variety of layouts are supported for different locales”.

The on-screen keyboard does not pop up after login in French. Will investigate.

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2019-01-05 15:11:12

  • blocked by Bug #16288: No accessibility support in the Greeter on Buster added

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2019-01-05 15:44:04

The on-screen keyboard does not pop up in the Greeter (after Bug #16288 was fixed).

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2019-01-05 16:25:10

  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
  • Assignee deleted (intrigeri)
  • % Done changed from 10 to 100

intrigeri wrote:
> The on-screen keyboard does not pop up in the Greeter (after Bug #16288 was fixed).

On current Debian sid, the on-screen keyboard works just fine in GDM’s password entry field. So there’s a problem specific to our Greeter here => that’s out of scope for this ticket, filed Bug #16291.

> The on-screen keyboard does not pop up after login in French.

On sid, it does pop up in a GNOME session in French (=> filed Bug #16292 about the Tails-specific problem), but the keyboard layout is QWERTY. In Spanish on Tails feature/buster the keyboard layout is QWERTY + ñ.

So I think I’m done with this evaluation, see you on these new tickets.

#7 Updated by intrigeri 2019-01-11 17:23:06

And regarding the ability to type extended chars (e.g. ü) that are not part of the current keyboard layoad, this just was presumably fixed: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/109, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/162. But it won’t make it into Buster and the diff feels too big to request a backport to 3.30 so we’ll have the fix in Tails 5.0, which is better than “let’s hope someone fixes that some day”.