Goals/Input

Intro

KDE community has elected to improve the Input stack and fill the last missing gaps.

This is an ambitious goal. It cannot be a small team effort, and we invite the wider community to participate.

How to help

There are a few ways to help this goal.

Developing

Get started with KDE development:

https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/development

Known issues and planned work

Drawing tablet

• Show the default keybindings for pad and stylus buttons
• Provide an option to turn off stylus indicator
• Feature to save and use different configuration profiles (and a keybind for this)
• Assigning shortcuts to tablets' touch rings

Work in progress

• Support for relative mode
• Support changing the pressure curve

Mouse and Touchpad

• Custom pointer acceleration
• Implement feature to disable touchpad when mouse is plugged in when using Libinput driver

Work in progress

• Mouse gestures

Keyboard

Work in progress

• "Spare Layouts" feature on Wayland MR: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/5963

IME (Input Methods)

• 2025-02-06 Matrix Log: Keyboard Layouts and Input Methods

Game Controllers

• Power saving should not trigger if joystick/controller/gamepad is in use

Accessibility

• [Keyboard filters] Slow keys does nothing on Wayland

Work in progress

• Mouse navigation with numpad doesn't work under Wayland

Contact

Find us:

• Matrix: https://go.kde.org/matrix/#/#kde-input:kde.org
• Gitlab: https://invent.kde.org/teams/goals/we-care-about-your-input