On Saturday, June 24, 2017 7:43:51 PM CEST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > <http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/qt-57-submodules-that-didnt-make-> > it-to.html> > > There are two Qt 5.7 submodules that we could not package in time for Strech > but are/will be available in their 5.7 versions in testing. This are > qtdeclarative-render2d-plugin and qtvirtualkeyboard.
Great step for those without a physical keyboard. Too bad for the QTBUG-59594, because with this kind of input method, every "input helper" is welcome. Hope it'll be fixed in near future. Thanks a lot :-) Chris I myself use: passwordless login + cellwriter (very good job by the way) But it's far from optimal. > > declarative-render2d-plugin makes use of the Raster paint engine instead of > OpenGL to render the contents of a scene graph, thus making it useful when > Qt Quick2 applications are run in a system without OpenGL 2 enabled > hardware. Using it might require tweaking Debian's > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90qt5-opengl. On Qt 5.9 and newer this plugin is merged > in Qt GUI so there should be no need to perform any action on the user's > behalf. > > Debian's VirtualKeyboard currently has a gotcha: we are not building it with > the embedded code it ships. Upstream ships 3rd party code but lacks a way > to detect and use the system versions of them. See QTBUG-59594, patches are > welcomed. Please note that we prefer patches sent directly upstream to the > current dev revision, we will be happy to backport patches if necessary. > Yes, this means no hunspell, openwnn, pinyin, tcime nor > lipi-toolkit/t9write support.
