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Increase spacebar trackpad speed
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Feature description
If you have ever used OpenBoard ( or HeliBoard now ) or Gboard, you would have noticed that the spacebar trackpad ( the blinking "|' that shows you where you currently are when typing text ) is very fast.
Why do you want this feature?
For better accesibility. It takes a big ass amount of time to get where you want to using the current spacebar because it's too slow.
Additional information
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I don't feel that it is slow at all.
Do you mean the fact that it moves one character at a time is slow? If that is the case, then adding a feature where it goes more than one character when the user goes faster would be the desired thing to do, but moving one character at a time should stay as is.
@ronniedroid If you compare it to other keyboards, e.g. SwiftKey, it is slow. It could even work like in SwiftKey, that while moving the finger slowly it goes one character at a time, but you can move your finger faster, and then it also scrolls faster. In SwiftKey it even enters the mode, that you can scroll up and down the multiline text area.
@Aga-C yeah, I will see how easy would it be to make it go faster when the user scrolls faster, no promises though.
If I understand this correctly, this is more about how much time it takes to activate the trackpad mode rather than the scrolling speed? I compared it with Gboard and the speed at which at which the cursor moves is same in both keyboards but Fboard (I'd to) takes a little bit of time before it activates the cursor control. Can you guys confirm if this is the case?
Otherwise, we have two things here:
- Cursor control takes more time to activated compared to other keyboards
- Cursor control/movement is slow
@naveensingh IMO, it's about slow movement. In Swiftkey, the speed of the cursor is dependent on how fast are you moving your finger over the space bar. In Simple Keyboard, the speed is constant, no matter how fast you move your finger.
Right, I just checked Swiftkey and the control is just better there but I don't notice this difference between Fossify and Google keyboard.
Google picks up the swipe gesture really quickly but the control isn't that great. It uses the long press event to launch language selection dialog whereas Fossify and Swiftkey both require a long press to activate cursor control. I like the way Swiftkey does it.
Right, I just checked Swiftkey and the control is just better there but I don't notice this difference between Fossify and Google keyboard.
Google picks up the swipe gesture really quickly but the control isn't that great. It uses the long press event to launch language selection dialog whereas Fossify and Swiftkey both require a long press to activate cursor control. I like the way Swiftkey does it.
Yes this is what I meant
Since the author is now a ghost, I have created a new issue for this: https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Keyboard/issues/129