Speech Keyboard controls missing on Sailfish OS 5.2

[AngusOfStockholm]

Environment: Device: Jolla J2 (2026)

Sailfish OS: Sailfish OS 5.2.0.13 (Finlayson)

Installed packages:

harbour-dskeyboard-1.6.0-1.noarch
harbour-dsnote-4.9.0-1.aarch64
jolla-keyboard-0.10.4-1.18.1.jolla.aarch64
maliit-framework-wayland-2.3.0+git4-1.13.3.jolla.aarch64

Problem:

The English Speech Keyboard can be enabled and selected as an input method, but the speech controls that should appear above the keyboard never appear. Just the clipboard icon.

The keyboard layout itself appears, but there is no speech panel or speech control strip.

Speech Note itself works normally, including speech recognition.

This setup worked previously under Sailfish OS 5.0.x.

Steps to reproduce

1. Enable English🗣 in keyboard settings.
2. Open a native text field.
3. Switch to the English Speech Keyboard.
4. Observe that the keyboard appears, but the speech controls do not appear above it.

Reproducibility: 100%.

Configuration evidence

The English speech layout is installed: /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts/harbour-dskeyboard_en.qml

It is registered with the speech input handler:

[harbour-dskeyboard_en.qml]
name=English🗣
languageCode=EN
handler=SttInputHandler.qml

The handler is installed and contains the expected top panel:

topItem: Component {
TopItem {
...
SttPanel {

The layout is enabled and actively selected:

active_layout='harbour-dskeyboard_en.qml'
enabled_layouts=['en.qml', 'sv.qml', 'custom_emoji.qml', 'harbour-dskeyboard_en.qml']

maliit-server remains active and running while the issue occurs.

Selecting the Speech Keyboard produces no relevant QML or Maliit error messages at the default journal logging level.

Expected result: The Speech Keyboard top controls should appear and allow speech input.

Actual result: The English Speech Keyboard is selected, but the speech control panel does not appear.

Additional note: Speech Note itself continues to work normally, so the issue appears limited to the keyboard integration.

[AngusOfStockholm]

Root cause found and workaround verified.

Sailfish OS 5.2’s jolla-keyboard.qml now constructs configured input handlers from:

/usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/handlers/

DSKeyboard 1.6 installs SttInputHandler.qml and its supporting QML files one directory higher:

/usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/

Maliit therefore fails to find handlers/SttInputHandler.qml and substitutes its prediction/clipboard fallback handler. This explains why the speech keyboard layout appeared but only showed the clipboard/
prediction panel.

I confirmed this by creating the following symlinks:

handlers/SttInputHandler.qml -> ../SttInputHandler.qml
handlers/SpeechService.qml -> ../SpeechService.qml
handlers/SttPanel.qml -> ../SttPanel.qml
handlers/SpeechIndicator.qml -> ../SpeechIndicator.qml
handlers/BusyIndicatorWithProgress.qml -> ../BusyIndicatorWithProgress.qml

After restarting maliit-server, the speech controls appeared and recognition worked.

One further relative-path problem remained: pressing ✓ reacted visually but did not insert the recognized text. SttInputHandler.sendText() dynamically loads KeyBase.qml by relative URL, so it was then looking
for handlers/KeyBase.qml.

Adding:

handlers/KeyBase.qml -> ../KeyBase.qml

fixed that too.

With all six links:

• Speech controls appear.
• Recognition works.
• X clears and resets the speech panel.
• ✓ commits recognized text into the active field.

No original package files were edited or moved. This appears to require a Sailfish 5.2-specific installation path or compatibility adjustment in the keyboard package.