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Port Keyboard input modules and Expand scope to cover input method configuration

Idea page: https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas#System_Settings:_Port_keyboard_input_modules_and_expand_scope_to_cover_input_method_configuration

Project Goals

Port all the Keyboard KCM's existing functionality to the new modern Kirigami UI, and make it easier for users to configure the IM from within System Settings.

Current progress

UI
- Ported 90% of the existing UI to Qt Quick
- Make model more flexible for incorporating IMs by using proxy models
- Basic support for configuring fcitx

Daemon
- Removed most of the legacy and cruft, such as tray icons and flags

The new architecture

	Xkb is enabled	Fcitx is enabled	Wayland is enabled
Layout switch (rotate) key press	switch layout as usual (setxkbmap)	set fcitx' "special" first layout to the one configured in the kcm, and then switch to the specific IM using dbus	let Kwin handle it (might have to change the kwin code too, since the config contains non-xkb layouts too)

Blogposts and Links

Clone repository: https://cgit.kde.org/clones/plasma-desktop/gpark/gsoc-kcm-keyboard-revamp.git/?h=new_keyboard_kcm

My first blogpost: https://medium.com/@mujjingun_23509/google-summer-of-code-porting-keyboard-kcm-to-qt-quick-862d16e58d3c

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 Idea page: https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas#System_Settings:_Port_keyboard_input_modules_and_expand_scope_to_cover_input_method_configuration
-Project Goals: Port all the Keyboard KCM's existing functionality to the new modern Kirigami UI, and make it easier for users to configure the IM from within System Settings.
+===Project Goals===
+Port all the Keyboard KCM's existing functionality to the new modern Kirigami UI, and make it easier for users to configure the IM from within System Settings.
 ==Current progress==
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 * Daemon
 ** Removed most of the legacy and cruft, such as tray icons and flags
+===The new architecture===
+{|
+|
+|Xkb is enabled
+|Fcitx is enabled
+|Wayland is enabled
+|-
+|Layout switch (rotate) key press
+| switch layout as usual (setxkbmap)
+| set fcitx' "special" first layout to the one configured in the kcm, and then switch to the specific IM using dbus
+| let Kwin handle it (might have to change the kwin code too, since the config contains non-xkb layouts too)
+|}
 ==Blogposts and Links==