Monitor development of screen keyboard in GNOME
Good screen keyboard support is required for Tails on handheld devices and touchscreen.
GNOME is working on an integrate screen keyboard:
- About GNOME for touchscreen devices: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/Touchscreen
- About GNOME screen keyboard: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/ScreenKeyboard
We should monitor their progress and help them focus on what matters, especially about:
- The on-screen keyboard layout does not reflect the physical keyboard
layout except for very few languages (but accented and other special
chars can be input). See #8281-note_28 for the current state of
things, and #8281-note_41 for WIP in this area. Actually there are
two cases:
- using the on-screen keyboard as a counter-measure against hardware keyloggers: then this is a serious problem as one has to context-switch between the layout of the physical keyboard and the layout of the on-screen keyboard;
- using the on-screen keyboard for universal access reasons: in this case, one will “simply” get used to the QWERTY layout, and no context switch is involved, so it’s OK-ish (except for people who switch between and other operating systems).
Parent Task: #6064
Related issues
- Related to #8445 (closed)
- Related to #8312 (closed)
- Related to #12385 (closed)
- Related to #10263
Original created by @sajolida on 8444 (Redmine)
Edited by intrigeri