KDE Wayland Plasma 6 has absolutely no virtual keyboards for desktop.

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Maliit (GitHub - maliit/keyboard: Maliit Keyboard, a free software virtual keyboard for Linux) is what has the most integration with plasma, but for my system it’s broken, so your milage may vary.
Squeekboard (World / Phosh / squeekboard · GitLab) is primarily built for GNOME, so it requires having the gnome libraries and desktop installed to run (at least on Arch).
wvkbd (GitHub - jjsullivan5196/wvkbd: On-screen keyboard for wlroots) is a as-minimal-as-possible keyboard, and may require compiling from source to install.

I understand this will be an edge case. But I still want to make a point about this.
I have a drawing tablet (Huion Kamvas pro 16 screen tablet) here. And in order to use it I have to be on the tablet and basically manipulate my desktop with this thing.

Not having a virtual keyboard for desktop it crazy considering that on the lock screen it shows an option for Virtual keyboards. yet all three of the listed compatible virtual keyboard services do not work. I tried all three of them. They either crash, never show up, or just dont work in general.

Please ,give us a functional virtual keyboard with these three features (PLEASE)

1: Theme matches colors selected in plasma ( or just breeze dark)
2: swipe to type. dear please. swipe to type is sooooo key for a virtual keyboard
If I could take my androids keyboard and plop it right on the desktop. It would be awesome.
3: Autocorrect/suggestions during type.

If anyone has tips on how to make any of these work. That’d be great. I’ve spent the last 3 days searching every avenue and even resulted in asking AI if it was even possible .

Eventually I got here.

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They’ve made it pretty clear they’d rather blame everyone and everything else than themselves for the atrocious virtual keyboard situation and much like the state of accessibility in the entirety of KDE they keep babbling about how they’re volunteers while getting really upset wben you point out that they’re willing to hire people to work on kdenlive and other such nonsense nobody in their right mind would ever want to use professionally.

It’s comical watching them constantly insist that basic input is a lower priority but then hyper-fixate on a piece of software that is so obviously the pet project of someone high up in the organization and the amount of bitterness I see over this across multiple websites is starting to make me wonder if its going to come back and bite them in the ass soon.

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