Comment 44 for bug 1723857

My plan (if upstream agrees with me) is to add an enum option that will
havethe the following possible values:
- auto, we'll not show the osk if a physical keyboard was detected
- always, always show the keyboard when a text-entry was touched
- never, don't show the keyboard in any casen

Anyway I'm planning to start working in January.

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Emile Victor <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I would settle for having it be disable-able at all times. There is no
> reason why it should default to on for a device with a physical
> keyboard.
>
> The desired behaviour would be:
>
> 1. Detect if there is a physical keyboard
> 1a. If there is a physical keyboard, on-screen keyboard defaults to hidden
> at all times
> 1b. If there isn't, default it to shown.
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1723857
>
> Title:
> onscreen keyboard appears whenever i touch touchscreen
>
> Status in GNOME Shell:
> Confirmed
> Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in gnome-shell source package in Artful:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Impact
> ======
> I'm in 17.10. Whenever I touch the touchscreen, the keyboard appears. It
> is disabled in System Preferences > Universal Access. This didn't happen
> in any previous Ubuntus, including 17.04 GNOME, nor in Fedora, which is
> GNOME based.
>
> Test Case
> =========
> 0. Find a laptop with a touch screen that works.
> 1. Settings > Universal Access > Typing > Screen Keyboard = OFF
> 2. Touch the screen.
>
> Regression Potential
> ====================
>
> Workaround
> ==========
> https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1326/block-caribou/
>
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> Launchpad-Bug: distribution=ubuntu; distroseries=artful;
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