Forgive me for asking, but I was wondering if making native virtual keyboard as a floating mini app rather than attachment to the specific system text field,is not possible right now?
I know it’s tied to the issues of security to Wayland, but I was wondering if it’s gonna be possible to make something like Windows 10 and 11 native virtual keyboard mini system app. It would improve lives drastically. And I’m asking directly about the native one and it’s abilities in the future, not necessarily workarounds.
Thank you to all of you for participating in the discussion in advance
Hi! I am not sure this would be feasible with the current state of things - my first thought was (ab)use the remote desktop portal, if it was to be done by a standalone app instead of shell itself. Speed of sound does something similar, but translates microphone input into strings it then passes to the portal as keyboard input - this theoretical app could do the same, the issue is it will then need to unfocus itself and refocus the last active window to actually pass the input into it. This works fine with speed of sound since you speak many words at a time, not so well for a single letter at once
I am neither a portals or GNOME Shell developer, so take that with a grain of salt, and the fact that this portal is definitely not built for either of these use cases.