Can I change or add a specific character to the keyboard myself? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by someoneFromInternet@lemmy.ml to c/thumbkey@lemmy.ml

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I want to add a comma to the letter, but I don't know how I can do it(english layout).

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[-] allanfelipe@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

So, last week I bought Thumb-Key on Google Play (without much research ... my fault). I saw some pictures and took for granted some features that are essential for me (a MessagEase user for almost 10 years). I actually enjoyed the feeling of Thumb-Key even more than MessagEase, but ...

I want to know if there is a way to have my specific keyboard (Portuguese), which is a variation of a Spanish keyboard with some accented letters and punctuations marks in different places (and floating diacritics, which is not a feature yet, right. I miss that, but it's not essential). I'd say that if I can get my letters in their correct places, it would already be usable, while I wait for the app to be more mature.

I read about the pull request procedure, but this makes an "official" language keyboard, doesn't it? As I understood it's not something that anyone can make, change a little something and have their keyboard there, or is it? Is there some procedure that I can make without being a seasoned programmer or customization is totally out of question? Is it fine if I make my idiosyncratic changes to ESMessagEase.kt, make it a custom PTMessagEase.kt and find my way in Github?

[-] sxan@midwest.social 0 points 8 months ago

No. But you can add a new keyboard layout with the change and submit a PR.

See tickets

604, very similar to your request; and 586, a more general and better solution. Both have been rejected by @dessalines, and the ticket comments contain his thoughts on why not.

[-] dvorak@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

whoopee!!! Another layout with the great difference of one key. When It gets 1 million of layouts, thumb key will get a podium in ginness world record.😆

[-] someoneFromInternet@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I agree, I just don't understand why I can't do it myself.

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Thumb-Key is a privacy-conscious smart keyboard, made specifically for your thumbs.

It features a 3x3 grid layout, as many older phones had, and uses swipes for the less common letters. Initial testing shows that you can reach ~25 words per minute after a day of use.

Instead of relying on profit-driven, privacy-offending word and sentence prediction for accuracy, as do most popular phone keyboards like Gboard and Swiftkey, Thumb-Key uses large keys with predictable positions, to prevent your eyes from hunting and pecking for letters.

As the key positions get ingrained into your muscle memory, eventually you'll be able to appromixate the fast speeds of touch-typing, your eyes never having to leave the text edit area.

This project is a follow-up to the now unmaintained (and closed-source) MessageEase Keyboard, which is its main inspiration.

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