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Julow / Unexpected-Keyboard

A lightweight virtual keyboard for developers.
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[Feature Request] A convenient & an easier access to uppercase #158

Closed qokrb2t closed 2 months ago

qokrb2t commented 2 years ago

The access to uppercase in unexpected right now is costlier as i see it (2 keypresses for a single letter & '3+number of letters' keypresses of 'a number of letters')

As a fan of the short-swipes, i'd like to request the developers to explore the possibility of a short-swipe for an uppercase. To any-one of the corners or even to an edge(upper?).

My case,

  1. It would be a lot convenient. Eg. 'Fun' would be 1 swipe+ 2 keypresses compared to what it is now (4 keypresses). That's atleast a 25% improvement even when short-swipes are considered the same as keypresses (which its not, they're way better)
  2. Short-swipes are a lot easier than keypresses
  3. Easier for non-dictionary words like passwords, word captcha's, writing a local language in english alphabets etc

What goes against my case is a possibility of smart features (Auto-complete, Next word suggestion, Spell-check, Auto-capitalize first letter etc) in the coming versions

My counter is, it's a performance cost. If unexpected as is, takes a 100us to perform an action & a feature implementation takes it to 200us, it still is a 100% performance cost even if we may not notice & even when the h/w is perfectly capable of handling it as normal

I'm not against the smart feature's bucketlist of a traditional virtual keyboard development. Just that it'd be convenient for users who wish to disable(given an option) it

Julow commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion.

An other cons is that the layouts are already pretty full and free spots are needed for the keys (often dead-keys) that are automatically added to the layouts depending on the user's installed languages. There can be a lot of these for some users, and it's only going to increase over time. Making room for the uppercase swipe would also be a big change to layouts.

Julow commented 3 months ago

This PR makes uppercase accessible via a clockwise circle gesture: https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard/pull/640 You can find the debug build here: https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard/actions/runs/9213480758?pr=640

Julow commented 2 months ago

I think the new circle gesture should answer this issue. Please re-open with suggestions otherwise.

Spike-from-NH commented 2 months ago

Rats, that build won't install over the previous 1.28+ debug build!

Julow commented 2 months ago

This patch is released.