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Keep Virtual Keyboard closed if dismissed manually
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norb...@rittel.de,
Aug 24
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 10991.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3524.2 Safari/537.36 Platform: 10991.0.0 (Official Build) dev-channel panther Steps to reproduce the problem: The virtual keyboard is a great tool for entering accented characters for texts and names in different languages, special characters not visible on a standard keyboard, or just emojis of any kind. The new small floating keyboard makes it even better now as you can place it anywhere on a (big) screen keeping it open while typing longer texts where you might need special characters again and again. What is the expected behavior? So for standard Chromebooks or -boxes it should be possible to open the virtual keyboard with a simple mouse click when needed, but also it keep it hidden when you don't need it at all. What went wrong? Currently you can dismiss the virtual keyboard at any time by clicking on the button on the overlay, but it will reopen automatically every time you click into a text field or area. This makes it impossible to use it in the context described above – it just gets in the way all the time when it shouldn't. The solution should be to keep the virtual keyboard hidden when the user has manually closed it. After that it should only reopen when the user clicks the icon on the shelf to reopen it. For touch-only devices the current behavior has to remain, but as long as physical keyboard is present, it does not make any sense. Did this work before? No Chrome version: 70.0.3524.2 Channel: dev OS Version: 10991.0.0 Flash Version:
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Sep 3
So to confirm: you are using a device with a physical keyboard and you would like a way to manually open/close the virtual keyboard and not have it show up automatically.
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Sep 3
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Sep 4
Exactly: With a physical keyboard there is no need for the virtual keyboard to pop open when clicking or tabbing into some text-entry field or area. So in that context it should open only when the user clicks the keyboard button in the Shelf to allow her to enter special characters or emojis. After that dismissing the virtual keyboard should keep it closed till the user opens it manually again.
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Sep 4
I have an Acer R 13 convertible Chromebook. The virtual keyboard used to only appear when the device was in tablet mode or if I turned it on manually in laptop mode. Recently, the only option appears to be that the user has to manually turn the VK on and off depending on the device's state.
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Sep 4
re: #5 if you are finding this behavior please file a new bug and (if possible) create a feedback report. Thanks!
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Sep 20
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Comment 1 by ovanieva@chromium.org
, Aug 24