[Development] Dictation Issues with Qt-built software

[Robert Iakobashvili]

>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Patch is here: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/176441
>
> It is already merged, but please let me know how it works for your use case.
>
> Morten
>

Yes, it works!

Thank you so much!

Kind regards,
Robert