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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3468141

I have been looking all day for a FOSS keyboard that's under active development. It seems like more of not all of the ones I've seen recommended haven't been updated in over a year some three years. I don't mind if it's a long time between updates but I want to know bugs will be fixed eventually.

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[โ€“] morethanevil@lmy.mymte.de 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Openboard got a new release from another dev

Please share, maybe someone can help ๐ŸŒž

[โ€“] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

"1.4.5 v4" bruh...

[โ€“] Undearius@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FlorisBoard has been a great keyboard. The last proper release was over a year ago but the developer is actively working on a big update which will add word suggestion.

[โ€“] amnesiac@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks nice keyboard.

[โ€“] Zenaida_macroura@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Thumb-key by one of the developers of Lemmy. It takes some getting used to but is my favorite at the moment. Updates seem to be around once a month.

[โ€“] Bugamn@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, is this a clone of Messagease? I was hoping to find something like that because I love this type of keyboard but I was worried that it hasn't received updates since 2020.

[โ€“] Zenaida_macroura@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It says it's mainly inspired by MessageEase in the F-droid description. It uses a custom character layout, but you can change to the MessageEase layout in the settings.

[โ€“] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, it doesn't support customizing the layout like MessagEase.

[โ€“] CCatMan@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This keyboard is wild! I do miss the emoji key :(

[โ€“] Zenaida_macroura@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

It's perfect for emoticons tho :->

[โ€“] soullioness@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like it but it's very hard for me to type this lol

you can use this? Like as a primary keyboard? It's cool though!

[โ€“] Zenaida_macroura@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yup! I'm getting an average 70 wpm using it. It's quite fun to use (:

[โ€“] soullioness@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

that is crazy lol.

[โ€“] MoonWalker@reddthat.com 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

FlorisBoard used to be my keyboard, but a couple months ago I found the Unexpected Keyboard. Both keyboards don't have spell suggestion.

FlorisBoard didn't have update for almost a year, but the developer is still working on it. The Unexpected Keyboard had an update last month.

Between those keyboards I prefer the Unexpected Keyboard.

[โ€“] janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried Floris recently. It looks really promising, but I found the swipe input to be maddeningly frustrating - obscure words chosen over common alternatives etc. That was the reason I most wanted to migrate from Gboard. Alas. There's still nothing out there in this respect which beats the old Swype back in the day for me (though of course it wasn't FOSS).

[โ€“] MoonWalker@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Oh, I forgot about. I suffered from the same problem. It also happened when I tried swiping long words. I would get a completely different word or nothing at all.

[โ€“] PhictionalOne@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Lol. The unexpected keyboard had a release commit 8h ago :D

[โ€“] fubo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] andruid@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I like my moonlander if physical keyboards is the question

[โ€“] warmaster@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

For anyone who didn't read the linked cross post: he's looking for FOSS Android on-screen keyboard.

I tried several and settled on the open board fork that has swipe typing.

[โ€“] soullioness@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry. I eventually edited my post. But edits don't federate well for some reason. How do you get swipe on openboard?

[โ€“] warmaster@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 2 years ago

Why isn't this merged in the official version?

[โ€“] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] Vuipes@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] trougnouf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was very confused as to why you would need regular updates of, say, a SofleRGB, then I opened your links.

[โ€“] einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I still use it to occasionally have access to special keys, but this is enough for me to switch away from it as a daily driver.

[โ€“] einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i mean its a keyboard, why would it need updates if it just works