We at Openismus combined our experiences in the Maliit input method framework and Wayland input methods and added support for Wayland input methods to Maliit. This allows using Maliit as a virtual keyboard under Weston/Wayland beside the demo weston-keyboard. To try it out use maliit-framework from master and Weston from our github repository and compile it with Qt 5 and qmake CONFIG+=wayland, maliit-plugins (from master) needs to be build with qmake CONFIG+=disable-nemo-keyboard.

There is no EFL support in Maliit (and no Maliit support in EFL) but since there is wayland input method support for EFL available one can just use Maliit with EFL applications under Wayland. This shows one of the advantages of the Wayland input methods, that input method frameworks do not need explicit support for all kind of UI toolkits anymore.

The current plan is to get input method support into Wayland 1.2. Adding support for Wayland input method to Maliit allowed us to discover some missing features which we will work on next together with some more improvement suggestions to get the input methods really ready for Wayland 1.2.