Screen Keyboard Text Input Issues
GNOME 43.2 has led to some improvements in touchscreen gestures which allow the user to manually invoke the screen keyboard using a touchscreen gesture from the bottom of the screen. Unfortunately the response of the screen keyboard is a bit slow and the screen keyboard has a number of issues with commonly used Linux Applications. I tested this with Fedora 37 with preinstalled applications:
- Settings - Search works Okay except for Accents
- GNOME Text Editor - Works Okay
- Terminal - Works Okay (Difficult to type in a long number though)
- Libre Office Writer - Works okay
- Files - Search needs to be manually invoked and then works okay
- Firefox - Works in Address Bar Only and not in Search Bar
With applications installed from Software, there were further issues:
- Chromium and Chrome - Needs to manually be invoked. Text types does not display in the address bar or search bar. Backspace works though. So you can delete text but not input text.
- OnlyOffice Document - Needs to manually be invoked. Text types does not display in the address bar or search bar. Backspace works though. So you can delete text but not input text.
- VSCode - Needs to manually be invoked. Text types does not display in the address bar or search bar. Backspace works though. So you can delete text but not input text.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY_XHlI1tH0
The improved OSK Extension does not seem to work properly in GNOME 43. In case it is useful for the improvement of the Screen Keyboard, here is a video showcasing the extension on Ubuntu 22.04 with GNOME 42:
Edited by Andre Klapper