[Development] Dictation Issues with Qt-built software

[Robert Iakobashvili]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Morten Sorvig <Morten.Sorvig at qt.io> wrote:
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>> On 4 Nov 2016, at 13:00, Robert Iakobashvili <coroberti at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>
> Hi, after some further investigation and offline discussion (thanks Frederik!),
> I think we’re closer to solving this:
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> 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
>
Dear Morten,
Please, let me know when you have patches for 5.6.2.
I can apply them, rebuild and verify the fix for the common case.

Thanks!

Kind regards,
Robert