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Keyboard alternative to Heliboard (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 week ago by Cris16228@lemmy.today to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/22107773

As the title says I'm looking for a good alternative for Heliboard. I've tried a few of them and:

Heliboard is my favorite but the suggestions are a bit meh, sometimes it doesn't suggest correctly or does not auto correct me. Sometimes it does but sometimes it doesn't

Futo is goat in suggestions compared to Heliboard but it doesn't have an much personalization as Heliboard (even if Heliboard isnt goat on that aspect). I can't change symbols layout based on my taste (or muscle memory tbh), themes are a nothing crazy IMO, I wish I was able to make my own but its currently set to "coming eventually"

FlorisBoard was my first ever open source keyboard but at that time, it didn't have suggestions but placeholders so I uninstalled it because I need them

I'm looking for a few things (ordered by importance):

Multilanguage support for correction. Is it even possible? Before switching from Samsung Keyboard to Pixel + Foss keyboard, I think there was something similar but I could be wrong (Top priority but at the same time is optional if not possible/hard to have)

Great correction for multiple languages (IMHO Futo is superior to everything I've tried)

Customization: Symbols layout, I want to set my own symbols and "subsymbols" (? The hold to show more)

Customization: Themes. I want to be able to change the colors of the keys/background/etc basically how Samsung Keyboard is customizable with the Keyboard plugin in Good Lock (or some nice themes with limited personalization but I would love to set my own colors

Thanks!

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[–] plm00@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's a big ask. HeliBoard and FUTO are actively in development so improvements will come. They're also the best we have as far as privacy or open source alternatives go. They'll either grow to fill the need for a perfect alternative or another project will, but not yet.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Heliboard actually had an update today!

[–] Cris16228@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~The problem with futo and I can't use it for that reason (edited poat): it doesn't have the bitwarden support, no "Bitwarden" button when clicking a password/mail box field and it's something I really need~~

Ignore. I'm blind af

The symbol customization is because muscle memory so I kinda need it, some symbols placement are bad for me, like the / next to the spacebar and my big finger always hides it

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 week ago

I have the Multiling keyboard. I don't recommend it to others as it's rather long in the tooth and still has quirks I haven't fully sorted. I keep it precisely because it does multi-language support with separate dictionaries; I switch it between U.S. English and French Canadian and autocorrect follows. It's massively customizable but I don't understand it and am more likely to render it unusable than to make it better.