<![CDATA[Swipe style keyboard]]>Feature request - a finger slide keyboard like gboard/swype, or handwriting recognition so a person can write with their finger or a stylus. Either idea would be easier than one finger typing.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3844/swipe-style-keyboardRSS for NodeTue, 10 Mar 2026 13:18:20 GMTFri, 21 Feb 2020 04:39:45 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:42:45 GMT]]>@arubislander it is, for sailfish, as for the dalvik clone used for android compatibility. But the community version of sailfish made their own, based on presage, which I guess is under GPL license (if any)

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/29042https://forums.ubports.com/post/29042Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:42:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:05:11 GMT]]>@Emphrath Unless the technology was licensed by both project sponsers...

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/29039https://forums.ubports.com/post/29039Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:05:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:04:04 GMT]]>@mihael if it existed on both meegoo and sailfish there must be a way to extract it from the sources, don't you think ? They were both Linux AND open source so maybe we could just compile it for UT with the help of a script the way some .deb packages can be made to be installed for archlinux ? I'm not a developer but it looks like less hassle than trying to copy some gboard...

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/29038https://forums.ubports.com/post/29038Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:04:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:07:04 GMT]]>On Meego it was accurate, it did a great job with capitalizing and spaces and everything...

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/29024https://forums.ubports.com/post/29024Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:07:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:05:50 GMT]]>@kugiigi it's an acquired taste, really ^^

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/29023https://forums.ubports.com/post/29023Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:05:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Mon, 24 Feb 2020 07:47:51 GMT]]>Is swype really faster and accurate? It is dependent on the language right?
Sometimes I try it but I don't see it being accurate and fast to my taste.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/29022https://forums.ubports.com/post/29022Mon, 24 Feb 2020 07:47:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:32:19 GMT]]>Hi rocket2nfinity. I too miss a swipe keyboard option. It's far quicker.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/29009https://forums.ubports.com/post/29009Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:32:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Sun, 23 Feb 2020 12:55:45 GMT]]>Before UT I used Meego and swype was such a treat! I would love to see this as a feature!

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/29004https://forums.ubports.com/post/29004Sun, 23 Feb 2020 12:55:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Sat, 22 Feb 2020 06:33:19 GMT]]>Does Ubuntu Touch use Presage? Sailfish's swipe keyboard uses a forked version of this.

https://github.com/sailfish-keyboard/presage

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/28916https://forums.ubports.com/post/28916Sat, 22 Feb 2020 06:33:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Sat, 22 Feb 2020 06:24:43 GMT]]>Maybe a possibility? Written in QT for sailfish. Supposedly as good as swype.

youtube.com/watch?v=_HHNboAGOck

openrepos.net/content/eber42/okboard

source code on git. Link in the above post

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/28915https://forums.ubports.com/post/28915Sat, 22 Feb 2020 06:24:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:29:45 GMT]]>There used to be MyScript Stylus and cell writer for hand writing recognition. But I haven't seen anything like that for a while. MyScript stylus was very close to what windows or palm or blackberry offered for years. But, I don't know if that could be adapted for UT

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/28897https://forums.ubports.com/post/28897Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:29:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:35:10 GMT]]>@dobey Yes thats the other one I was thinking off. Thanks

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/28888https://forums.ubports.com/post/28888Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:35:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:33:23 GMT]]>@Lakotaubp said in Swipe style keyboard:

There was another keyboard type more swipe based under development/testing

I think you're thinking of the English version of the Flick layout, which fuseteam was working on.

There was also some previous work on the OSK from Canonical days to prototype support for something similar to swiping. I don't recall what it was called exactly, but someone wanted to work on getting it ready for UT, though I haven't heard any more about it since.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/28887https://forums.ubports.com/post/28887Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:33:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:40:38 GMT]]>@kugiigi Thank you for the clarification 👍

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/28851https://forums.ubports.com/post/28851Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:40:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:36:45 GMT]]>@Lakotaubp The swipe thing I did is a totally different thing 😅
It's for moving the text cursor and selecting texts.

I think "swipe" would be difficult to implement in UT especially that some swipe gestures are already used by the maliit keyboard. Maybe a totally different keyboard would do.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/28850https://forums.ubports.com/post/28850Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:36:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:33:12 GMT]]>Have you tried the extra features available by holding down the space bar? https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1893/osk-enhancements-proposals?_=1582280899724 There was another keyboard type more swipe based under development/testing I vaguely remember think @kugiigi was once more behind that but as I say lost track(pad ) a bit 🙂 sorry for that.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/28849https://forums.ubports.com/post/28849Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:33:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:13:04 GMT]]>@rocket2nfinity
Handwriting recognition would be very useful!

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/28845https://forums.ubports.com/post/28845Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:13:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Swipe style keyboard on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:45:10 GMT]]>@rocket2nfinity oh man i'd love this to happen but it most probably won't. Even getting a swype keyboard to run on an open source version of android (lineageos and so on) is close to impossible since Swype has been discontinued and using gboard implies copying proprietary libraries from gapps which generally results in an unstable mess if anything... So to think it could be "ported" seems unrealistic. There might be a need for an open source new swype keyboard but I don't see this happening in the near future.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/28839https://forums.ubports.com/post/28839Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:45:10 GMT