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[Robert Schroll <rschroll@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Alexandre Abreu 
<alexandre.abreu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> While a programmatic solution might be handy in the meantime, can you 
> have a text field that can be the receiver for the user's input & 
> with which the user could trigger the keyboard to popup? you could 
> track down the onchange events & pick up the currently entered "word"?

That might work, but it'd be mildly annoying both to program and to 
use.  I also don't know how to detect whether the user has a physical 
keyboard, so we'd be stuck with this for all devices.  If I'm going to 
go through the work of building a work around, I wonder if it's better 
to write my own QML wrapper, instead of relying on 
ubuntu-html5-app-launcher, and create my own javascript hooks to show 
and hide the keyboard.

BTW, there is a bug about this now: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-html5-theme/+bug/1296462

Robert