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No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 31 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Good time for FOSS keyboard apps to get some more love

Heliboard and Futo were the recommendations from what I remember?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Futo has been my favorite so far compared to other keyboards. I haven't used Heliboard yet, but it also looks like a good option.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I use the futo keyboard as well, but autocorrect and swiping is not good at all. correctly spelt words constantly gets changed for me, clipboard doesn't see what I copy too many times and swiping inaccuracy is too frequent.

    only reason I put up with it is for the futo microphone. mic app is in a league of it's own

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I had the same problem, but I found that turning up the advanced Parameter Values in the Text Prediction settings helps to keep everything spelled correctly. I'm currently at 10.4 for the transformer strength and 8.3 for the autocorrect threshold and I'm noticing a lot less issues.... I haven't tested out turning it up all the way yet.

    I also have the Transformer fine tuning enabled.

    The swipe feature definitely needs some attention.

    They do have a crowdsourced way of helping to improve their swipe prediction, more info on the link here: https://swipe.futo.org/

    You'll notice that even the swipe prediction for Heliboard comes from a closed source library.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh man, is that the issue with my clipboard? It has been driving me NUTS. The other issues are true, but I can live with them. I've really been enjoying FUTO though, so I'm not sure I want to give it up.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is the keyboard I use:

    Florisboard beta (doesnt have gliding and I think autocorrect yet)

    Sample image from my keyboard looking like gboard-dark-blue-limitless

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Heliboard is basically the same, but has the ability to add glide. Plus suggestions/corrections are already implemented, so I prefer it over Floris (which I used for months before finding heliboard)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Currently using Traditional T9 from F-Droid. Works well.
    Even has a decent emoji picker, which is good. πŸ‘Œ (However, i say that and couldn't find the OK symbol...)

    But for a full board: Heliboard is my go-to.

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