Onscreen keyboard with word completion feature progress

[Kevin Kofler]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> I've no experience in implementing this sort of thing....or much of
> anything.
> 
> However, I wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to implement this in a
> more general way so it can be used equally in KDE/GOME and any
> application.
> 
> Today, when using the ibus input method and Chinese you are presented with
> characters matching the input criteria.  So, that makes me wonder it
> wouldn't make sense to make this part of an ibus extension.

Yeah, I think something based on IBus would make more sense for Fedora than 
something based on Presage. On the other hand, Maliit is what's out there 
right now.

> At least for normal users it may make some sense.  I know that on my
> Android pad the predictive keyboard makes typing easier.  I think it would
> add functionality to the desktop.
> 
> I wonder why Presage didn't/doesn't go that route.   It seems they may be
> relying on applications building in support for and being "Presage
> enabled".

As I understand it, Presage is yet another input method framework, competing 
against IBus. Now IBus was primarily intended for input of Asian characters, 
not for an on-screen keyboard, so it might not be the best solution here. On 
the other hand, those "typing boosters" for IBus already show predictive 
word completion on IBus, though not with an onscreen keyboard. But if I'm 
not mistaken, IBus's architecture is based a lot on key presses, which might 
not make it suitable for this purpose: I'd have to look at it more in depth 
to see whether it'd be reasonably technically possible to implement 
something like Maliit over IBus.

        Kevin Kofler