Ubuntu Desktop Next does not show on-screen keyboard when needed

[Oliver]

When booting the amd64 daily iso of the Ubuntu Desktop Next image on a tablet, I am unable to get the on-screen keyboard to appear by tapping into a textfield. Without this functionality, it is impossible to use the terminal, the search, or perform basically any task that would make the operating system useful on a tablet.

In my humble opinion, whatever logic you guys use for displaying on-screen keyboards in Ubuntu Touch on phones and tablets should be available in Ubuntu Desktop Next when there is no physical keyboard attached.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Agreed, this depends somewhat on bug #1400312 and us being able to query input devices.

[Ben (ben-mueller1998)]

I have the same problem on an X220T, whose screen can flip into a tablet mode. The touchscreen works great for everything until I want to type something. In Gnome Shell, anytime I select a text field with the touchscreen, it assumes I want to use the on-screen keyboard (OSK) and automatically pops it up. If I begin to type on a physical keyboard, it gets rid of the OSK and lets me get on with life. It seems to me that this may be a good approach here as well! Definitely would work better than the MS way of doing it, always having to press a button to make the keyboard appear.