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.
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
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I'm hoping it works well. Biggest thing keeping me from switching is how easy it is to switch to Japanese and Chinese, as someone who enjoys music in both languages but can barely speak any. This will definitely help if I accidentally deleted something in either of those languages while looking up a song or trying to translate something. Or just if I'm typing on my txt file app and accidentally erase something I need, since the app has no undo buttons.
OK they added a feature but is it usable yet? Gboard always seemed like the worst option to me. Never did do input right.
... wait, you guys live without undo button??
- HeliBoard gang
Same here
- FUTO gang
Haha florisboard already had that
Wow, it took them this long to include a backspace button? Jeez...
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A good reminder to stop using gboard. Others have pointed to alternatives. Heliboard is another FOSS option that's had this for years.
Gboard combines Japanese and German in a way that is properly usable. I wish there was a better alternative. That being said, support for east Asian languages (and easy switching) isn't relevant for most.
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That shakes me to my core. Lol
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.
Really? I've been using Heliboard (as a replacement for florisboard) and I have had literally no complaints works just as well as gboard did for me. I 100% recommend Heliboard I think its 10/10
Does it not, for example, have weirdly oversized emoji in the picker on your phone and this breaks the kaomoji?
I do not care about them tbh. All the emojis I've tried are fine, but I don't use the kaomojis.
I tried heliboard. It apparently kicks ass on the back end but the front end sucks and that's the part I use.
FUTO Keyboard is the one!
With FUTO it feels nearly perfect, only issue is that in daily use I write a weird mix of German and English even in the same sentence, and hence I need full mixed-language input which it doesn't seem to support (yet).
For a second I really thought I had now finally found an alternative to Gboard but unfortunately the swiping detection is really poor and I need it to be able to use German and English at the same time. So I guess it's still back to Gboard. :(
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But no Gboard means no voice typing :( I use that thing every day.
Gboard voice typing backend:
Heliboard with Futo voice typing ( unlike gboard it works offline)
They are not as good as Google's especially for languages other than English.
I was looking for an alternative to fossify, thanks for the recommendation
I rely on the glide typing to much, and all I've tried don't feel as smooth. But I'm on GrapheneOS and disallowed internet access to GBoard, so while not great, it's fine for now
Heliboard has glide typing lol, although the file has to be downloaded manually iirc.
Maybe I'll give it a try again. Glide typing seems to be proprietary tho
I've been using swiftkey for my glide typing for a while
Swiftkey was the first to steal it from Swype I'm pretty sure
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It took a year and a half to develop an "undo" feature? WTF is happening at Google?
Fun fact it's always had undo if you switch to the Japanese keyboard
I have absolutely no idea why that's the only way you've been able to do it until now
I have this plus several other features like shifting left and right on the spacebar with FlorisBoard
If by shifting left and right you mean moving the cursor, that has been in gboard for 5+ years.
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