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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] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

No multilingual typing with FUTO though right, or did I miss something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As far as I can tell, just the switch menu (hold space), not multilingual. I didn't even realise it was a thing until you mentioned it (in my defence I only speak one language).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

@Dave @EddoWagt they just need to add a language switch, I doubt its that hard

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

They have a language switch button actually if you hold the space-bar, but I need it to be without having to switch manually

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is that what multilingual is? If you hold space you can easily switch to any of the languages you added in settings. I thought multilingual was the ability to type in any of your added languages without having to toggle between them?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah that's exactly it for me, I regularly switch between Dutch and English, so having to switch with a button is a nuisance. GBoard allows me to switch without any input

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

@Dave its quite clunky, you don't really switch languages more like open another instance of the keyboard, a simple language switch can fix this, I'll prob make an issue

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

@EddoWagt @Dave yea that's a deal breaker for me, I have to use multiple languages daily