Can not reveal osk manually (frame device icon) when not in ebook mode

[erikos]

From ​http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12082#comment:13

Currently the behaviour in the XO is that the OSK will only be shown automatically when in ebook mode.

We have an edge case that is not triggered yet correctly. There is a Frame device that does reveal the OSK manually. We do use the glib API for that ​http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/b7997ef33011283690c9a3d24d54fb7050316e5c. That should allow to reveal the OSK as well in laptop mode. Since the last fix that does only work in ebook mode.

[dsd]

Both clicking on a text input field, and using the frame to open the keyboard, arrives at the same entry point in maliit.

#0  MInputContextConnection::activateContext (this=0x8430828, connectionId=1)
    at minputcontextconnection.cpp:448
#1  0xa7660796 in m_dbus_glib_ic_connection_activate_context (obj=0x83ee420)
    at minputcontextglibdbusconnection.cpp:235
#2  0xa7660152 in dbus_glib_marshal_m_dbus_glib_ic_connection_BOOLEAN__POINTER
    (closure=0xafe334a8, return_value=0xafe334e0, n_param_values=2, 
    param_values=0x84b2230, invocation_hint=0x0, marshal_data=
    0xa7660770 <m_dbus_glib_ic_connection_activate_context(MDBusGlibICConnection*, GError**)>) at mdbusglibicconnectionserviceglue.h:257

So an API change will be needed to make this work right: the frame device needs a way of saying "really, really open the keyboard".

Also not really worth looking into this until #4054 is fixed, otherwise you won't be able to type when we do get it appearing request.

[dsd]

Moved to ​http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12281

[dnarvaez]

Milestone 0.98 deleted