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FR: reduce/remove amount of text on spacebar

Open Chrizzle opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments
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Hi all,

Herewith a minor request (say opinion):

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It is not related to a problem. More of a design improvement: I have recently enabled multilingual typing for Dutch and English. By enabling this the space bar notes "Nederlands - Engels" (Dutch - English). This is rather a lot of text, which looks a bit crowded on the space bar. (See screenshot). (A13, OBv7, AsusZenfone 8)

Describe the solution you'd like Improvements could be:

  • Add the option to hide the text in OBs settings (because I know what I have selected in the language settings), or;
  • abbreviate the language names (NL - ENG) (like Gboard does if I remember well)

Use case N/A, aesthetical improvement

Describe alternatives you've considered see solutions

Additional context N/A

It is a minor improvement though. Overall I'm very happy with how OB works and looks now! 1000014613

Chrizzle avatar Sep 13 '23 17:09 Chrizzle

When the text is too long, it will automatically switch to displaying the abbreviations. I increased the padding a little, so the text has a little less space (previously it could reach the very edge of the space bar). However I'm not sure whether this is enough to switch to abbreviations in your case.

Helium314 avatar Sep 16 '23 21:09 Helium314

I have tested this in v9. Indeed the padding is not sufficient to abbreviate (but by eye the padding seems also the same?)

Regards

Chrizzle avatar Sep 21 '23 17:09 Chrizzle

fixed with 8ca65aebc9d754fb381f6cb2bf26c97dbdedb498 (use e.g. as text).

Helium314 avatar Sep 15 '24 14:09 Helium314