Bug 742379

Summary:	On-screen Keyboard is not provided on touch screen devices
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jiri Eischmann <eischmann>
Component:	gnome-settings-daemon	Assignee:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	18	CC:	bnocera, mads, mclasen, rstrode
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Description Jiri Eischmann 2011-09-29 21:36:27 UTC

Description of problem:
I tried Fedora 16 (the nightly build) on ExoPC tablet that doesn't have any hardware keyboard. An on screen keyboard wasn't provided and I didn't find any way to turn it on, hence the device was useless. Tablet PCs become more common and I think Fedora should work with them out of the box.
I didn't know what component to file it to, so if I'm wrong with gnome-settings-daemon, please move it to the correct component.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.2
  
Actual results:
Couldn't type anything on the device, so I couldn't even look for the right component and install it if it was not just installed.

Expected results:
The system should detect that the device doesn't have any hardware keyboard and should turn an on-screen keyboard on, or provide some easy and intuitive way to turn it on.

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2011-10-24 22:49:21 UTC

Yes, we should detect this automatically.
In the meantime, click on the 'Universal Access' icon, and turn on 'Screen Keyboard'

Comment 2 Mads Kiilerich 2012-11-23 17:41:44 UTC

Still no generic handling of this, AFAIK.

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