[Bug 1672465] Re: Onboard doesn't work in Wayland

[Jeremy Bicha]

Personally, I would vote for Onboard to be integrated into GNOME
upstream instead of Caribou.

Caribou is very deficient compared to Onboard and has not really been
actively developed much. (There was a GSOC proposal to do some things
but I am guessing the student could probably end up working just as
easily on Onboard in GNOME instead.)

Two prominent examples: I believe Caribou only supports a very small
number of hard-coded keyboard layouts. Caribou is a fairly simple
onscreen keyboard that does not have as many accessibility features as
Onboard.

So Caribou can work if you just want a simple English onscreen keyboard,
but if you need a different keyboard layout or more accessibility
options, it's not very helpful at all.

Therefore, I recommend that the Onboard team open a discussion with the
GNOME Shell developers about using Onboard's core to replace Caribou.
(That could help with the Wayland difficulties since the necessary
integration could be built directly into GNOME Shell.)

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