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GBoard replacement?

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I’m not sure I’m ready to go all “lineageOS full degoogle” on my phone because some rather necessary day-to-day apps for me will freak out if I have root, let alone a modified OS. Buuuut GBoard has gotten right in my tit, and now they’re offering nightmarish AI generated emoji and I’m like “NO”. So.

I don’t really care about predictive text or swipe-typing or any of that stuff, I mostly just type normally.

The only nice-to-haves that might entice me would be support for one-handed mode and a configurable keyboard layout.

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tht :verified:@mstdn.social
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@Dave @EddoWagt they just need to add a language switch, I doubt its that hard

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They have a language switch button actually if you hold the space-bar, but I need it to be without having to switch manually

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Is that what multilingual is? If you hold space you can easily switch to any of the languages you added in settings. I thought multilingual was the ability to type in any of your added languages without having to toggle between them?

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Yeah that’s exactly it for me, I regularly switch between Dutch and English, so having to switch with a button is a nuisance. GBoard allows me to switch without any input

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@Dave its quite clunky, you don’t really switch languages more like open another instance of the keyboard, a simple language switch can fix this, I’ll prob make an issue

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