KDE devs have been quietly working on Plasma Keyboard, a new on-screen keyboard for desktop and mobile part of the “We Care About Your Input” KDE Goals initiative. Although not ready for texting yet, it has been making progress. Hopefully it’ll be in a screen near you soon. Join the effort!
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Hello, KDE’s efforts to develop a virtual keyboard for Plasma are exciting. I am sure it will be a great tool with a useful and beautiful design. I will be eagerly waiting for this project. Thank you for your work.
Is it intended only for mobile devices or also as an accessibility keyboard?
That is a normal always on top window (movable/resizable) , working everywhere (not just when focused on an input field) + features like different input modes (hover, …), keys like “right click”, ideally customizable layouts, custom keys/macros. Like Onboard, Florence and Windows/MacOS accessibility keyboards.
Related thread: Plasma 6 and Wayland no on-screen keyboard working
An example of MacOS with an advanced setup: blakewatson.com - Writing and coding with the macOS Accessibility Keyboard
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THANK GOODNESS…this is one of the accessibility features I really miss since switching from Mint Cinnamon. PLEASE make sure it works without a touchscreen the way that OnBoard does.
You can just install Onboard if for X11. Here is a recent fork https://github.com/dr-ni/onboard if the standard package does not work on your OS.
The thread above also seems to mention that it can be made to work on Wayland.
Looking at Issues · Plasma / Plasma Keyboard · GitLab it looks like this keyboard will not be a proper accessibility keyboard.