Swipe style keyboard

dobey

@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.

Lakotaubp

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

rocket2nfinity

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

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

rocket2nfinity

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

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

mihael

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

Opolork

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

kugiigi

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.

Emphrath

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

mihael

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

Emphrath

@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...

arubislander

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

Emphrath

@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)