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Layouts for FUTO Keyboard
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Improved Language Selector #51

Open Volkmire opened 3 months ago

Volkmire commented 3 months ago

Current language selection is not pleasant to use. It requires 2 clicks and moving the finger for more than half of the screen.

Current:

Proposed:

related: futo-org/android-keyboard#85

NagBoard commented 3 months ago

futo-org/android-keyboard#45, futo-org/android-keyboard#52, futo-org/android-keyboard#110 and futo-org/android-keyboard#112 are also related

Would be good to have a choice between them so they won't overlap, choice to overlap for those who want it and choice to turn these features off completely

DavidBevi commented 3 months ago
I want to add on this topic. This picture is taken from the Google Play Store page. Said picture gives me a strong suggestion that the voice-dictation is triggered by holding the spacebar, which I failed to enable, which led me here.

I second the opinion of @NagBoard, more options = more good!

Personal preference for a language menu that NEEDS a swipe to select / ALWAYS CLOSES upon release, and lists as many dictate in [lang] buttons as I want (or Multilanguage input). Thanks
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NagBoard commented 3 months ago
I want to add on this topic. This picture is taken from the Google Play Store page. Said picture gives me a strong suggestion that the voice-dictation is triggered by holding the spacebar, which I failed to enable, which led me here.

I second the opinion of @NagBoard, more options = more good!

Personal preference for a language menu that NEEDS a swipe to select / ALWAYS CLOSES upon release, and lists as many dictate in [lang] buttons as I want (or Multilanguage input). Thanks
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That would be badass!

Somnius commented 3 months ago

I'm also a multi keyboard layout user, before i found this issue i've posted on discord about it, hoping for a solution soon

solariz commented 3 months ago

Came here to actually say that. I agree that the current selection method of the language is very bad. Currently I'm using two languages, German and English, and I constantly need to swap back and forth.

The suggestion would be to have a simple swipe up and down on the spacebar to toggle between the languages. Or the alternative option to replace the emoji key with the language toggle key because I used the language toggle far way more often than the emoji key or I have both in one like long pressing it, give the emoji's election, sharp pressing it, toggling the language or whatever. Currently it's not really usable.

And if you hold the spacebar longer than X, then you activate the voice input, which would be really awesome.

Thank you for the great project.

maracko commented 3 months ago

Adding my +1 to these suggestions

RickX56 commented 2 months ago

The suggestion from @solariz would be best especially for people coming from OpenBoard keyboard : "The suggestion would be to have a simple swipe up and down on the spacebar to toggle between the languages" Thanks!