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[kevin gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: unity8 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: ubuntu-ux
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Description changed:

  we currently can't interact with puritine apps relying on the OSK
- wondering if we could add this ability
+ 
+ to add this feature in where text-box selection on an xapp results in
+ triggering the osk, in unity8 would be a very large/complicated effort.
+ However, with a manual capability to trigger the OSK this could be
+ achieved.
+ 
+ For design team
+ one idea was to add a show/hide button for the OSK.
+ realizing this may be undesirable to add another indicator item - a follow-on idea might be to add an alpha button in the corner of the xmir-root window (the window that holds any xapp at the moment)
+ this way the button presence would only be limited to the Xapp interaction.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1543351

Title:
  osk with puritine apps

Status in Canonical Pocket Desktop:
  New
Status in Ubuntu UX:
  New
Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in xorg-server package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  we currently can't interact with puritine apps relying on the OSK

  to add this feature in where text-box selection on an xapp results in
  triggering the osk, in unity8 would be a very large/complicated
  effort. However, with a manual capability to trigger the OSK this
  could be achieved.

  For design team
  one idea was to add a show/hide button for the OSK.
  realizing this may be undesirable to add another indicator item - a follow-on idea might be to add an alpha button in the corner of the xmir-root window (the window that holds any xapp at the moment)
  this way the button presence would only be limited to the Xapp interaction.

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