kcm: Add keywords for the diacritics popup
Original commit message(s)
- kcm: Add keywords for the diacritics popup
Otherwise none of the words in the setting other than "key" bring up this KCM when searching for it in System Settings, so finding the setting is tricky unless one already knows that it is from Plasma Keyboard.
Reason for the change
Lately, I have seen several posts online from people being confused about the diacritics/special character popup that Plasma Keyboard added since 6.7.0 got released, and they are unable to find the setting to disable it by themselves, so they resort to asking people online instead.
Below are some I found on the KDE subreddit:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1ull92y/how_can_i_disable_this_new_keyboard_feature/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1ugvkid/how_to_remove_this_keyboard_feature_its_so/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1uc3j23/is_it_possible_to_disable_the_feature_for/
When I tried to look for the option myself in System Settings using only the search bar, I was unable to find it without already knowing that the feature is from Plasma Keyboard. In particular, since the text of the setting is "Alternate characters: Show popup when holding a key", I tried to search for "alternate", "character", "show", "popup", "when", "hold" and "key", and only the last one contains the Plasma Keyboard KCM (titled "On-Screen Keyboard"), and even then the standard "Keyboard" KCM naturally appears above it, as does the "Virtual Keyboard" KCM. So, for a user who is using either a desktop or a laptop without a touchscreen or tablet, they may never even realize that they have a virtual keyboard installed, let alone actively running, so if they don't keep up with KDE news they will likely not know to look in the "On-Screen Keyboard" KCM, or even the "Virtual Keyboard" KCM.
So, my proposal here is to add some keywords so searching for that setting and have the correct KCM be in the options is at least more likely. In my case, the words that come up in my mind first to describe the diacritics popup is "special character popup", so I figured "popup" should definitely be there, and "character" I think is a more commonly seen/used word than "diacritics" especially for people who don't usually have a need for the accented characters so I figure that's a good candidate too.
I would be open to adding more keywords in there too (like "diacritics", maybe "special" or "alternate", or "pop-up", or even "show" since that's in the checkbox text) but I figured adding too many keywords would make the KCM appear too often even when it may not be relevant, so I thought I'd just stick with the most obvious ones first.
A side effect of this is that if I search for "popup" in Kickoff instead of System Settings I actually get this KCM as the first result, not sure if that's a good or bad thing lol.
Test plan
Search for the newly added keywords in System Settings and see if the KCM (named "On-Screen Keyboard") appears in the results.
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