After first being spotted in development in July of 2023, the Gboard beta is beginning to roll out an “Undo” button...

After first being spotted in development in July of 2023, the Gboard beta is beginning to roll out an “Undo” button…

          • recursive_recursion they/them@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            oh uhh I used the sprout emoji from FlorisBoard to symbolize growth.

            Are FOSS apps inherently for newbs?

            not really sure how to answer this as Free Open Source Software (FOSS) apps are just more trustworthy than proprietary apps.

            It mostly depends on the development age of the project.

            Being brutally honest FOSS apps that are:

            • Newer tend to be more clunky and are harder to trust because the dev might be inexperienced and might not continue development.
            • Older might have some crust but are more trustworthy as the dev is likely to polish and iron out any cruft.

            So “Are FOSS apps inherently for newbs?” is kinda hard to answer.

            If instead I was asked: “Is x FOSS app easier to use than y proprietary app?” this I could probably give you a more definitive satisfactory answer.

      • drkt@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
        21·
        1 month ago

        Yes but the space bar has other functions in gboard so it’s a 50/50 shot if you move 5 chars back or activate a random thing you never want to use.

        • Virkkunen@fedia.io
          5·
          1 month ago

          Swiping on the space bar only moves characters, the faster/longer you swipe, the more characters or words you swipe. There are no other functionalities that overlap or conflict with this

        • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
          0·
          1 month ago

          Really? Where? I’ve been using Heliboard and i don’t see a swipe-text option.

          • burgersc12@mander.xyzEnglish
            0·
            1 month ago

            Heliboard > Gesture Typing

            From their github: Glide typing (only with closed source library )

            • library not included in the app, as there is no compatible open source library available ( can be extracted from GApps packages (“swypelibs”), or downloaded here (click on the file and then “raw” or the tiny download button)