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No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard
- cbdumas 2y agoMy understanding is that modern touchscreen keyboard use very aggressive predictive text so that the actual "shape" of the keys in terms of where you touch the screen isn't even well defined. This certainly feels like the case in contexts where it's turned off, like Google Search. Is this more of an aesthetic thing?
- rospaya 2y agoIn some languages that's the way to go but I have any type of autocorrect or prediction turned off as it doesn't help.
- r0ckarong 2y agoThe way this was tested too was weird. I had the round keys for one interaction and then they went away. I can't find an option to even turn them on if I wanted to.
- zitterbewegung 2y agoI guess one way to test stuff is good or not is to see how many people complain about it so open betas seem to have a good audience.
- hypercube33 2y agoBring back slide out keyboards - I deeply miss my Droid that had this. so much nicer to type on.
- aceazzameen 2y agoYou and me both.
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- globular-toast 2y agoAre there any decent but basic swipe keyboards? Swiftkey was miles better than Gboard, but Microsoft acquired it and made it crap. It's got AI in it now apparently...
- jjk7 2y agoThey've all gone to crap unfortunately, like much of consumer software imo.
- cjs_ac 2y agoFuto Keyboard is pretty good: https://keyboard.futo.org/ https://keyboard.futo.org/
- fxtentacle 2y agoIt also has local AI for offline voice recognition, which works really well for me.
- eth0up 2y agoI hate Ghoulgle's keyboard, somewhat passionately when I'm feeling peaceful. I once installed a 3rd party keyboard and was naive enough to disable gboard. I was of course very pleased to find no method of entering my creds upon reboot. I had to reinstall.
- talesfromearth 2y agoI loved this keyboard when I had an Android phone. Its voice typing accuracy was very good. iOS voice typing leaves so much to be desired.
- nickfixit 2y agoI just want a damn Ctrl key......
- BlackLotus89 2y agoHacker's keyboard is your best bet... (Just didn't get any updates in 6 years) Oh yeah and the anysoft keyboard has a terminal version as well
- Havoc 2y agoAh the engineer in charge of the keyboard button shape finally gets to earn his RSUs
- comrade1234 2y agoIt’s not a big deal. /edit …as big as you’re making it seem