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GBoard replacement? (pawb.social)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title.

I'm not sure I'm ready to go all "lineageOS full degoogle" on my phone because some rather necessary day-to-day apps for me will freak out if I have root, let alone a modified OS. Buuuut GBoard has gotten right in my tit, and now they're offering nightmarish AI generated emoji and I'm like "NO". So.

I don't really care about predictive text or swipe-typing or any of that stuff, I mostly just type normally.

The only nice-to-haves that might entice me would be support for one-handed mode and a configurable keyboard layout.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

But my favourite so far is FUTO Keyboard.

Note, that FUTO Keyboard is proprietary, as its code is being distributed under source-available license: https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/latinime/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

OP never asked for OSS 🙂. It's not big tech and has no network access so should suit the de-google theme.

On FUTO, they are using the term "Source First" (which they invented) because they pretty much think that OSI is funded by big tech and serves their purposes. My exaggerated paraphrasing but you can read their views here.

Basically they think the current model doesn't work, and they are experimenting with a different take. I don't have strong views but I'm happily using the keyboard while I wait and see if it works for them.