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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I switched to Heliboard and I couldn't be more happier! It is just as good as any proprietary keyboards.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (8 children)

FUTO keyboard. Try it. Say bye to gboard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I periodically try FUTO. It's a great keyboard, except for its swiping support. That seems to be gradually improving, but it isn't quite there yet. Unfortunately that is how I do all my typing, so I keep going back to GBoard. I look forward to leaving it for good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Ahh. I only use it occasionally. I'm bad at spelling and need the word predictions too much.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Looks awful

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The keys are not even the size they are on the screen, what’s getting drawn is just a grid of letters. Touch keyboards are far more complicated than you think.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah. I’m gonna guess this types about the same. This is probally just an aesthetic change for the appearance of being β€œNew!”.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Kinda reminded me of this post

https://feddit.org/post/8032101

Albeit the kerning on those virtual keys are making me all itchy. Horrible horrible implementation from Google yet again when they could've done it right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

maybe the idea is that round keys will have less typos than rectangular keys that are all touching each other?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

They are most likely running an A/B test on exactly those metrics.

We'll know if it's successful if they roll it out in the end.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hopefully with the more available space between the keys, then there will be less typos.

I type with my thump cause I like to use my phone one handed but I get a lot of typos due to that.

Florisboard beta keyboard lets you increase that available space even further by decreasing the letter size. It's still missing other features tho, like word suggestions, auto correct etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gboard is so far the only one i know that actually works with my use case. Swiping with multiple languages active at once, and actually figuring out what I want to type.

I'm running it without Google services or network access.

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

SwiftKey also does this!

I really, really want to switch to a less, uh, commercial keyboard but none of the ones typically praised here (for good reason) support multilingual swiping.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Try giving us back a fucking physical keyboard. Touchscreens fucking suck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I disagree, but to each their own. You do have a potential option here:

https://www.clicks.tech/

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