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chrome-virtual-keyboard is an extension to chromium that
has a javascript on-screen keyboard that allow users
to use chromium without a physical keyboard.

According to chrome webstore, there are over 700K users.

limitations:
    * upstream hasn't maintained this extension for a long time
    * not all textbox will work, notably iframes

How to use:
    Enable through chromium PACKAGECONFIG vkeyboard-extension.

leveraging the chromium flag:
--extension-load="" to load a local unpacked extension.

Signed-off-by: Yi Fan Yu <yifan.yu@windriver.com>
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions meta-chromium/classes/chromium-extension-package.bbclass
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# class for defining extension dir for chromium

CHROMIUM_EXTENSION_DIR = "${datadir}/chromium-extension"

VIRTUAL_KEYBOARD_DIR = "${CHROMIUM_EXTENSION_DIR}/chrome-virtual-keyboard"
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SUMMARY = "Chromium Virtual Keyboard"
DESCRIPTION = "Virtual Keyboard Extension for Chromium/Chrome"
HOMEPAGE = "https://apps.xontab.com/VirtualKeyboard"
LICENSE = "MIT"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=a8366463bacd4f2ec5edd419e8a113ff"

SRC_URI = " \
git://github.com/xontab/${BPN}.git \
"
SRCREV = "e2b9adf4885cc4ed600cd9bccb77e0df8ff549aa"
S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
PV = "1.11.3+git${SRCPV}"

inherit allarch chromium-extension-package

do_compile() {
:
}
do_install() {
install -d ${D}${CHROMIUM_EXTENSION_DIR}/
cp -r ${S} ${D}${CHROMIUM_EXTENSION_DIR}/${BPN}

# remove unecessary artifacts
rm -f ${D}${CHROMIUM_EXTENSION_DIR}/${BPN}/_config.yml
rm -rf ${D}${CHROMIUM_EXTENSION_DIR}/${BPN}/.git/
}

FILES_${PN} += "${CHROMIUM_EXTENSION_DIR}/${BPN}"
15 changes: 12 additions & 3 deletions meta-chromium/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium-gn.inc
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require chromium-unbundle.inc
require gn-utils.inc

inherit features_check gtk-icon-cache qemu
inherit features_check gtk-icon-cache qemu chromium-extension-package

# The actual directory name in out/ is irrelevant for GN.
OUTPUT_DIR = "out/Release"
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ffmpeg_branding="Chrome" proprietary_codecs=true, \
ffmpeg_branding="Chromium" proprietary_codecs=false \
'

# Disable VA-API by default. It is compile time enabled since M88, but it's not
# desired to make all the users of the Chromium meta-browser recipe depend on
# libva without a real need. Both X11 (non-Ozone) and Wayland (Ozone) can use it,
# but remember to also use proprietary codecs so that H.264 is supported. Also note
# that not all the hardware configs might be supported.
PACKAGECONFIG[use-vaapi] = "use_vaapi=true,use_vaapi=false,libva"

# chrome/chromium extension for virtual keyboard
PACKAGECONFIG[vkeyboard-extension]= ",,,chrome-virtual-keyboard"

# Base GN arguments, mostly related to features we want to enable or disable.
GN_ARGS = " \
${PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS} \
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# https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/issues/693
GN_ARGS_append_libc-musl = ' use_allocator_shim=false'


# Add chromium extensions here
CHROMIUM_EXTENSIONS = " \
${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'vkeyboard-extension', '${VIRTUAL_KEYBOARD_DIR}', '', d)} \
"

CHROMIUM_EXTRA_ARGS ?= " \
${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'use-egl', '--use-gl=egl', '', d)} \
${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'impl-side-painting', '--enable-gpu-rasterization --enable-impl-side-painting', '', d)} \
${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'kiosk-mode', '--kiosk --no-first-run --incognito', '', d)} \
--load-extension='${@",".join(d.getVar('CHROMIUM_EXTENSIONS').split())}' \
"

# V8's JIT infrastructure requires binaries such as mksnapshot and
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# Add extra command line arguments to the chromium-wrapper script by
# modifying the dummy "CHROME_EXTRA_ARGS" line
sed -i "s/^CHROME_EXTRA_ARGS=\"\"/CHROME_EXTRA_ARGS=\"${CHROMIUM_EXTRA_ARGS}\"/" ${D}${libdir}/chromium/chromium-wrapper
sed -i "s#^CHROME_EXTRA_ARGS=\"\"#CHROME_EXTRA_ARGS=\"${CHROMIUM_EXTRA_ARGS}\"#" ${D}${libdir}/chromium/chromium-wrapper

# This is ANGLE, not to be confused with the similarly named files under swiftshader/
if [ -e libEGL.so ]; then
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