Comments on: Feature Requests: Sailfish Native Virtual Keyboard

By: JollaTides

JollaTides — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 15:52:03 +0000

@ Jonathan – there is already haptic feedback

By: David

David — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 22:13:38 +0000

1/ arrow keys

By: Joar Holm Andersen

Joar Holm Andersen — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:37:23 +0000

1/ Swype, like on the N9
2/ Possibility to store learned words online or on flash. When restoring phone, you dont loose all learned words.
3/ Let the virtual Keyboard detect wether a hw OH/bluetooth keyboard is attached or not. When hw keyboard is attached, the virtual keyboard must not show up.

By: Georg

Georg — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:12:49 +0000

Sailfish VKB Feature Request:

1/ “press, hold and select” access to secondary symbol layout in same way as first level of symbold and numbers from ABC layout.

2/ Show more and if enough space *all* alternatives (i.e. diacritics variations from other *enabled* languages) for a letter when long-pressing.
E.g. when using English layout and I have also German enabled the a key should also show ä on long-press and when I also have French as third language enabled it should *also* show á and à.
Alternatively enable changing language by swiping left or right over space bar.
Long-press space bar to switch languages is just too d**n slow to write bi- or tri-lingual text.
Bonus points for also enabling number with long-press of first row.

3/ Let the user decide (e.g. with long-press in suggestion row (top row where also paste is showing up)) when to show completion suggestion and let user add, modify and delete words.
Also make it take into consideration the immediate sourroudings if user put cursor into existing character-sequence; i.e. After typing t,h and e and putting cursor between h and e (“th|e”) and typing ‘r’ it should not only underline the r but the whole word and suggest “three”, etc.

Next weeks target area:
notifications
or
ambience

By: Georg

Georg — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:54:37 +0000

If you press and hold the “?123″ button and then move your finger to the first row they will turn to numbers and you can let go when the correct number is selected.
I concurr though that a long press on first row is more common when coming from Android keyboards…

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 02:47:41 +0000

1) replace the dot-> make spacebar larger place it in same place with komma and let komma be accessed by longpressing the dot.
maybe off topic -> dial pad replace backspace in bottom. (best would be with swipe from right to left in the kb area)

By: Anand

Anand — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 05:55:42 +0000

The existing “zoom / fine tune cursor position” can have some usability improvements.
I discovered it accidentally although I came to know later that it is mentioned in user guide as treasure. :-) I am able to access it but sometimes its like ‘hit and miss’ :-(
Feel one intuitive way to implement this would be to pinch and zoom like how one zooms a picture while viewing an image or using Volume + / – button to zoom available only within text editing mode. Made these suggestions here as well.
https://together.jolla.com/question/9704/feature-request-fine-tune-cursor-position-while-text-editing/

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:43:31 +0000

Sailfish VKB Feature Request:

1/ Swype
2/ Move the ***** full-stop (period) away from the space bar. I hit it accidentally 3 or 4 times per message

3/ Move the return (send for texts) to the top of the keyboard to avoid accidental hits.

By: coeseta

coeseta — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:15:31 +0000

Sailfish VKB Feature Request:

1/ swype

2/ hide keyboard when there is physical keyboard or TOHKBD connected

By: tadzik

tadzik — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:53:20 +0000

Oh yes. T9 is something I’d absolutely love to have. +1 for that.