Better styling for textInput

[Simon Vogl <si...@voxel.at>]

Hi all,

we have a number of non-technical users who are occasionally using 
guacamole+vnc to access their devices via tablets/cell phones.

In order to the text input box a little more intuitive, we've styled it 
and added a placeholder text so people will know that & where they can 
input like this:

I did not find an issue on Jira doing something similar, so if this is 
of general interest, we can open a new issue and create a PR on github.

In addition, we have added a small addition to the preference service 
that lets us trigger the input method via a cookie so have can enable a 
default behavior for devices without keyboard.

Ferman & Simon


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Re: Better styling for textInput

[Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org>]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM Simon Vogl <si...@voxel.at> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> we have a number of non-technical users who are occasionally using
> guacamole+vnc to access their devices via tablets/cell phones.
>
> In order to the text input box a little more intuitive, we've styled it
> and added a placeholder text so people will know that & where they can
> input like this:
>
> I did not find an issue on Jira doing something similar, so if this is of
> general interest, we can open a new issue and create a PR on github.
>
> In addition, we have added a small addition to the preference service that
> lets us trigger the input method via a cookie so have can enable a default
> behavior for devices without keyboard.
>
> Ferman & Simon
>
>
>
Simon,
I would say go ahead and put in both a Jira issue and pull request for this
and we can review. Also, when you put in the PR, please put in a full
screenshot of the interface so that it's obvious where the changes are
being made - the above screenshot doesn't really help me know where this
change is being made, primarily because I don't use the text input
interface like that :-).

-Nick

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