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Flicking keyboard for Android
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allow separate button width adjustment for landscape and portrait #191

Open Raoul-Kima opened 5 months ago

Raoul-Kima commented 5 months ago

Context

Since the app allows separate layouts for portrait and landscape, the number of buttons per button row can differ between the two. This causes the buttons to change shape. E. g. if I use the "only letters" layout in portrait and adjust the button width to be square, then in landscape (e.g. using the double letters layout) they end up being much taller then wide.

Describe your suggested feature

I suggest having separate button width sliders for landscape and portrait. (Edit: I meant the "key height" adjustment. Which, together with the scale adjustment can be used to adjust button width.)

Other details

An alternative might be to change it so button retaing their shape instead of the panel retaining its width when switching between layouts with fdiffereing number of buttons per row. However, some might indeed prefer the buttons to be a bit less wide when using a panel with many buttons per row. Not having separate adjustments for portrait and landscape doesnt allow that (at least not in a customizable way). (Edit: changed wording to reflect that the adjustment ist called "key height" not "button width" as I previously thought)

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Anarchtism commented 5 months ago

The way I've been somewhat working around this is by using the "Landscape scale" option, but being able to change key height separately for landscape would be a much more effective fix.