no predictive text on sailfish x? [answered]
hey guys, first post here. i was a long time n9 user and ive been playing around with sailfish on my xperia x for a few weeks now. but i cant figure out how to activate/turn on predictive text. and i thought that was an advertised feature. i searched but didnt see any posts on this.
Which language do you use? Are you using the official SailfishX or the community built image?
martonmiklos ( 2018-02-16 08:13:05 +0300 )editIts official Sailfish X. I do have a few other languages. i do have a couple other keyboards active (spanish, french, and greek)
yiannako ( 2018-02-16 08:42:12 +0300 )editPredictive text state in SFOS is going to change dramatically very soon. @martonmiklos has done a big job in bringing open-sourced Presage predictive engine (https://together.jolla.com/question/59413/use-presage-for-improving-text-prediction-in-maliit/) over to Sailfish and developing corresponding keyboard plugin (https://github.com/martonmiklos/sailfishos-presage-predictor)
At present, I am helping him with the further development of plugin and presage backend. Few days ago I finished work on new language database format for presage which majorly improved the performance and reduced database size. The scripts were written to make packaging new languages and keyboards easily.
There are still few outstanding issues to be fixed (https://github.com/martonmiklos/sailfishos-presage-predictor/issues and https://github.com/rinigus/presage/issues), but we are getting close to the new release, in my personal opinion. After that, its up to community to get texts and train the language model for each language they are interested in. And report / fix bugs / implement new features, as usual for open-source projects.
rinigus ( 2018-02-16 09:58:12 +0300 )editPlease run a zypper se for xt9 as root. If not installed (no i in the first column) install it with zypper in jolla-xt9
martonmiklos ( 2018-02-16 10:49:20 +0300 )editYes it's an advertised feature, and if you read the end of the sentence, you'll see "[...] as downloads from Jolla Store to your device" ;)
Sthocs ( 2018-02-16 11:26:23 +0300 )edit