I have this plus several other features like shifting left and right on the spacebar with FlorisBoard
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
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If by shifting left and right you mean moving the cursor, that has been in gboard for 5+ years.
fair enough although I'm more interested in FOSS🌱 apps rather than proprietary and especially Google🗑️ apps
Are FOSS apps inherently for newbs? Since you gave it the sprout marker from FFXIV?
oh uhh I used the sprout emoji from FlorisBoard to symbolize growth.
Are FOSS apps inherently for newbs?
not really sure how to answer this as Free Open Source Software (FOSS) apps are just more trustworthy than proprietary apps.
It mostly depends on the development age of the project.
Being brutally honest FOSS apps that are:
- Newer tend to be more clunky and are harder to trust because the dev might be inexperienced and might not continue development.
- Older might have some crust but are more trustworthy as the dev is likely to polish and iron out any cruft.
So "Are FOSS apps inherently for newbs?" is kinda hard to answer.
If instead I was asked: "Is x FOSS app easier to use than y proprietary app?" this I could probably give you a more definitive satisfactory answer.
Haha, thanks for giving it a serious answer, I was just making a silly joke. 😅🫶
no worries🤗
Yes but the space bar has other functions in gboard so it's a 50/50 shot if you move 5 chars back or activate a random thing you never want to use.
Swiping on the space bar only moves characters, the faster/longer you swipe, the more characters or words you swipe. There are no other functionalities that overlap or conflict with this
Yes but I miss swipe texting so much.
Heliboard is basically like florisboard but you can use swipe typing.
Really? Where? I've been using Heliboard and i don't see a swipe-text option.
Heliboard > Gesture Typing
From their github: Glide typing (only with closed source library )
- library not included in the app, as there is no compatible open source library available ( can be extracted from GApps packages ("swypelibs"), or downloaded here (click on the file and then "raw" or the tiny download button)
Wow. Thank you!
Never heard of floris. Trying it out right now!
Oh cool, thanks for sharing this!
It took a year and a half to develop an "undo" feature? WTF is happening at Google?
A good reminder to stop using gboard. Others have pointed to alternatives. Heliboard is another FOSS option that's had this for years.
I wish Heliboard was usable, but it has so many small but show-stopping bugs or omissions.
I know, I know. Should fix it myself and do a pull request. Hopefully one day got time for that, like fixing the over-scaled emoji picked (that breaks kaomoji due to the scaling) or the lack of a search box there. It's easily the closest FOSS keyboard to the big two (Gboard and SwiftKey), so with a bit more work it could really compete with them I feel.
I tried to love Heliboard too, had similar issues.
Moved to FUTO Keyboard after a recommendation on here, really happy with it
About time.
it's 2025 and having a freaking CTRL key on soft keyboards is still a luxury and obscure thing.
Why? Give us the CTRL key, and that's that.
finally