[Development] Dictation Issues with Qt-built software

[Morten Sorvig]

> On 4 Nov 2016, at 13:00, Robert Iakobashvili <coroberti at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Right. Most users of dictation are people with learning or motoric disabilities.
> 
> When these users are used to a certain pattern of platform-specific habits
> working for them, any other options to do the same could be seen as usability issues
> breaking these habits.


Hi, after some further investigation and offline discussion (thanks Frederik!),
I think we’re closer to solving this:

Dictation input can be handled via our current input method support, where we
implement the NSTextInputClient protocol. As a matter fact this almost works
today (Qt 5.6): select text in a Qt text editor; starting dictation via the
fn key should now work.

So what we are looking at then is developing a bug fix to our NSTextInputClient 
protocol implementation to make dictation work in all cases.

Morten