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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (8 children)

FUTO keyboard. Try it. Say bye to gboard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 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] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This has been my issue with every single FOSS keyboard. I can't live without swipe.

Edit: Forgot you could download a swipe library for heliboard Here by picking raw and then uploading it to heliboard in advanced settings>load gesture typing library.

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

I have added the swipe library to FUTO. It works, but not well enough for me. (That may be my clumsy swiping, but the issue remains.) I estimate that it gets about one word in four wrong. GBoard is still wrong about one time in ten, but at that rate, swiping and correcting is still much faster for me than traditional typing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I get that. I'm realizing now that I've reinstalled it just how bad my one handed swipe is lmao.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days 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] 5 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

I wanna switch to FOSS alternatives but swiping is either funky (FUTO) or not available for now (Floris). I ended up downgrading gboard to an older version since all this emoji stuff (especially the bitmoji sticker nonsense) really grinds my gears.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Did you try Heliboard? It can be setup to swipe, though I mostly tap type. When i have used the swipe it has worked well though. I have been using it for over a year now and really like it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Swiping seems to work fine on Heliboard (I guess because it uses the same proprietary library as gboard)

[–] theboomr 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

See, I guess my problem is I never liked gboard's swipe algorithms back when I used gboard. Cause man heliboard's swiping with the gboard library really pisses me off sometimes lol

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

I like this. But this should be an option.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (9 children)

All I want is for gboard to stop hijacking my default keyboard. I set futo for a reason and I meant it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Looks awful

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