Auto-show Onboard when clicking an already focused text entry

I've looked into this and believe we can do it, as long as the click changes caret position.

First question is, do we want Onboard to show on every click? The hide button is there to get Onboard out of the way, for whatever reason. I believe just looking through a document should be possible without obstruction on every click, accidental or not. So I tend to think we should try it for Case 2 only, i.e. for single line text entries (anything but ATSPI_STATE_MULTI_LINE).

Mirzet, the other question is, is it too easy to hide Onboard accidentally? Which button are you trying to press when that happens? Note that the move button of v0.98x isn't working properly on touch screens. This is fixed trunk.

I agree with this proposal, as far as I have understood everything correctly. progress is always good. :-)

There is not a tipical case where you always hitting the hide button accidently but if you do, you will be very confused especially in conbination with this bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-nexus7/+bug/1077277
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-nexus7/+bug/1076607
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-nexus7/+bug/1077260
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-nexus7/+bug/960537

I allready noted that with the move button.

Done in trunk. Seems to be quite useful, thanks for the suggestion, Mirzet.

Note, as I wrote above, in order for the keyboard to show up, the caret position of the clicked text entry has to change. I did experiment with a more general approach to detect any click, but this didn't work out.

Hey Marmuta, this fix was committed a month ago, when will it be released? ;-)

Thanks for the reminder. It is released, with 0.99 alpha at least, I guess that counts. There are a bunch of other bugs to close too. I was too focused on tackling bug #905636, recently.

First time using this system so apologies if I am doing this wrong. I noticed a issue I had with the keyboard was it wouldn't show when a screensaver came on. If you don't have a physical keyboard you are locked out unless you reinstall. I think a workaround is not to include a screensaver function as it will eliminate this issue and wont have to worry about it sucking power instead of going to standby mode.

As a reply to message #6:

Thanks for your interest in Onboard and for telling us your problem.

Could you please verify whether the "Show when unlocking the screen" checkbox in the Onboard Preferences is enabled? If it is and anboard does not appear, please file a new bug (there is a link at the topright of this page to report bugs), as it is a different problem as the one from this thread.