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      rocket2nfinity last edited by

      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.

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        Emphrath @rocket2nfinity last edited by

        @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.

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          A Former User @rocket2nfinity last edited by

          @rocket2nfinity
          Handwriting recognition would be very useful!

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          • Lakotaubp
            Lakotaubp last edited by Lakotaubp

            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 πŸ™‚ sorry for that.

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              kugiigi @Lakotaubp last edited by

              @Lakotaubp The swipe thing I did is a totally different thing πŸ˜…
              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.

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                Lakotaubp @kugiigi last edited by

                @kugiigi Thank you for the clarification πŸ‘

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                • dobey
                  dobey @Lakotaubp last edited by

                  @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.

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                    Lakotaubp @dobey last edited by

                    @dobey Yes thats the other one I was thinking off. Thanks

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                      rocket2nfinity last edited by

                      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

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                        rocket2nfinity last edited by rocket2nfinity

                        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

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                          rocket2nfinity last edited by

                          Does Ubuntu Touch use Presage? Sailfish's swipe keyboard uses a forked version of this.

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

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                          • mihael
                            mihael last edited by

                            Before UT I used Meego and swype was such a treat! I would love to see this as a feature!

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                            • Opolork
                              Opolork last edited by

                              Hi rocket2nfinity. I too miss a swipe keyboard option. It's far quicker.

                              How can you trust that an app really won't send some company your location data, when you tell it not to? The only way you can trust a program not to do something it isn't supposed to do is if it is free software. ~ RMS

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                                kugiigi last edited by

                                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.

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                                  Emphrath @kugiigi last edited by

                                  @kugiigi it's an acquired taste, really ^^

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                                    mihael last edited by

                                    On Meego it was accurate, it did a great job with capitalizing and spaces and everything...

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                                      Emphrath @mihael last edited by

                                      @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...

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                                        arubislander @Emphrath last edited by

                                        @Emphrath Unless the technology was licensed by both project sponsers...

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                                          Emphrath @arubislander last edited by

                                          @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)

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