cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3468141

I have been looking all day for a FOSS keyboard that’s under active development. It seems like more of not all of the ones I’ve seen recommended haven’t been updated in over a year some three years. I don’t mind if it’s a long time between updates but I want to know bugs will be fixed eventually.

  • @[email protected]
    9•1 year ago

    FlorisBoard used to be my keyboard, but a couple months ago I found the Unexpected Keyboard. Both keyboards don’t have spell suggestion.

    FlorisBoard didn’t have update for almost a year, but the developer is still working on it. The Unexpected Keyboard had an update last month.

    Between those keyboards I prefer the Unexpected Keyboard.

    • Phi
      2•1 year ago

      Lol. The unexpected keyboard had a release commit 8h ago :D

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 year ago

      I tried Floris recently. It looks really promising, but I found the swipe input to be maddeningly frustrating - obscure words chosen over common alternatives etc. That was the reason I most wanted to migrate from Gboard. Alas. There’s still nothing out there in this respect which beats the old Swype back in the day for me (though of course it wasn’t FOSS).

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 year ago

        Oh, I forgot about. I suffered from the same problem. It also happened when I tried swiping long words. I would get a completely different word or nothing at all.