[SailfishDevel] Flatpak for Sailfish

rinigus rinigus.git at gmail.com
Mon Jan 6 11:12:23 UTC 2020


Exactly, something like that is needed. Ideally, it would be hooked via
Wayland (input extension?) and trigger the keyboard on focusing on any text
field. But I will be happy with Qt only solution as well. Any tips on how
to make it possible?

Rinigus

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:51 AM Андрей Кожевников <coderusinbox at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Android side is using "remote keyboard" to show sailfish keyboard on top
> of Android
>
> пн, 6 янв. 2020 г., 9:52 rinigus <rinigus.git at gmail.com>:
>
>> Morning!
>>
>> Re compositor issue: that has been worked around by having
>> compositor-in-compositor. In theory, but I didn't look too much more than a
>> day into it, we could have headless compositor rendered on gles widget
>> which could be rather current, with all protocols supported. I mainly
>> bailed out to keep this project feasible and getting somewhere in
>> reasonable amount of time.
>>
>> Re keyboard: current solution is to incorporate keyboard into the app by
>> adding into main window. I am waiting for Sailfish keyboard gurus to
>> comment on it with the hope that we can use some kind of plugin in flatpaks
>> for communication with SFOS keyboards (dbus is available, for example).
>>
>> Rinigus
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 7:55 AM Alexander Akulich <
>> akulichalexander at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all and thank you for working on this.
>>>
>>> Back in 2018 I had Qt 5.9 and Qt 5.11 builds for SFOS (they are not
>>> available anymore because of changes in OBS repos), but the builds
>>> were not usable because the of the same issues — wayland and virtual
>>> keyboard. As far as I understood, a compositor with newer wayland
>>> protocol is needed to support minimize and switching back to full
>>> screen (the applications were able to start, but I couldn't open them
>>> again after minimize).
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 3:54 AM Damien Caliste <dcaliste at free.fr> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Thank you Rinigus for all of this. Indeed, the current main blocker
>>> seems to be the fact that xdg-shell is not available in Lipstick. This is
>>> linked to the ancient version of QtWayland, even not 5.6, but still 5.4 !
>>> They already have a 5.9 branch in SailfishOS git (
>>> https://git.sailfishos.org/mer-core/qtwayland/tree/mer-5.9), but we
>>> need to wait for Jolla to make the Qt switch. I don't think it's something
>>> community can change on device... I hope I can be proven wrong though.
>>> >
>>> > Damien.
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