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4wd:
I cant yet figure out how to easily change (already chosen) language keyboards in it. This is very intuitive and clear in Gboard (long press on spacebar).-tomos (January 18, 2019, 02:52 PM)
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Interesting, didn't know that - my GBoard has a world symbol next the space bar: tap it and it cycles through whatever keyboards you have; long press and it shows a selection list.
Of course, that means I can inadvertently tap it instead of the space bar and find myself typing in Cyrillic ;D
Deozaan:
I suspect that this thread was created to facilitate a spammer to advertise some Android keyboard app sometime in the next few days/weeks. :'(
But it seems it has initiated a decent discussion nonetheless. :Thmbsup:
I cant yet figure out how to easily change (already chosen) language keyboards in it.
-tomos (January 18, 2019, 02:52 PM)
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Try swiping the space bar sideways...
-IainB (January 18, 2019, 05:27 PM)
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This just moves the caret back and forth for me.
tomos:
I cant yet figure out how to easily change (already chosen) language keyboards in it.
-tomos (January 18, 2019, 02:52 PM)
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Try swiping the space bar sideways...
-IainB (January 18, 2019, 05:27 PM)
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This just moves the caret back and forth for me.
-Deozaan (January 18, 2019, 10:20 PM)
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this works now for me (thanks) . I don't think it did initially: the keyboard name was also not initially shown. But all good now :up:
tomos:
I cant yet figure out how to easily change (already chosen) language keyboards in it. This is very intuitive and clear in Gboard (long press on spacebar).-tomos (January 18, 2019, 02:52 PM)
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Interesting, didn't know that - my GBoard has a world symbol [ Invalid Attachment ] next the space bar: tap it and it cycles through whatever keyboards you have; long press and it shows a selection list.
Of course, that means I can inadvertently tap it instead of the space bar and find myself typing in Cyrillic ;D
-4wd (January 18, 2019, 08:57 PM)
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with me it's not so extreme, I just get my z's and my y's confused :-)
IainB:
I cant yet figure out how to easily change (already chosen) language keyboards in it. This is very intuitive and clear in Gboard (long press on spacebar).-tomos (January 18, 2019, 02:52 PM)
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Interesting, didn't know that - my GBoard has a world symbol [ Invalid Attachment ] next the space bar: tap it and it cycles through whatever keyboards you have; long press and it shows a selection list.
Of course, that means I can inadvertently tap it instead of the space bar and find myself typing in Cyrillic ;D
-4wd (January 18, 2019, 08:57 PM)
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That's what is meant by "poor ergonomic design" - i.e., conducive to enablement of common/predictable human error.
My users had similar problems when selecting another language keyboard using the Google keyboard (and other common keyboards). Problem went away with SwiftKey. They really seem to have thought of everything, but I suspect that that itself is probably attributable to the fact the product has been out there for some years now and has had a consistently focused development/testing/improvement program which is now in the optimisation phase. I can see why Microsoft might have wanted to buy them up.
I think the ergonomic design of SwiftKey is damn near perfect - and that's not so much just the keyboard design and functionality, but includes some incredibly smart integration with other functionality - e.g., including things such as fonts and styles (bold, italic, etc.), clipboard management, hotkey definitions for a collection of repeatable strings).
That's why I was blown away by the app.
It's a pleasure to know that there are specialised product designers/developers out there in the SwiftKey team who can produce such a result.
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