Comment 16 for bug 1366421

Hi Guys,

I'm the author of the two Gnome Shell extensions mentioned above, the sole reason I didn't reply on this thread so far is that I wasn't are of it. (Thanks to Ritesh Raj Sarraf for leaving a note on my github repo!)

The repos are here:
https://github.com/schuhumi/gnome-shell-extension-onboard-integration
https://github.com/schuhumi/gnome-shell-extension-slide-for-keyboard

While "slide for keyboard" is a very sound implementation, onboard integration is a little hacky..

A few notes about where it's at:
 - The bug where no keyboard is shown in password entry fields (like wifi password) has been fixed a week ago
 - The extension is programmed to show Caribou for all text fields that are part of the Gnome Shell itself. The reason is that Onboard doesn't work in places like the aktivity overview (it is not being shown). This is an Onboard bug! I didn't focus much on finding the culprint though as typing in your wifi password or the name of the application you're searching for is fine to do with Caribou.
 - Show/Hide doesn't work perfectly as it is not so easy to switch between Caribou and Onboard on the fly while keeping track of what is visible etc.

I'm not totally happy with the current state either, but I'm very willing to work with you guys to improve the situation. Especially with
> I think the Onboard team (me and Francesco, lately) would definitely support this.
One of the things that comes to my mind is implementing dbus flags that indicate whether Onboard is visible or not (maybe they're already there, but I certainly couldn't find them), as far as I remember that was one of the problems I ran into when writing the extension.

One more question on the side: How's Onboard support for Wayland? It doesn't seem to work for me (only question marks on all keys and the position on the screen isn't right either)