[Idea] Raise the keyboard on long devices

You want the keyboard to move further up the screen?

Yes, right now it is too low and I have trouble with holding the phone

Okay, not sure how it will pan out in reality but give this a try, assuming you're not afraid to use terminal.

Navigate to devel-su nano +96 /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/KeyboardBase.qml here you will see the line looks like this;

height: layout ? layout.height : 0

change that line to look like this;

height: layout ? layout.height*1.25 : 0

This also has a dire effect on the keyboard in landscape view, more so as you increase the 1.25 figure

You can use systemctl --user restart maliit-server.service to restart the keyboard.

I did this with Messages open and a half written text, this way you can see the changes you make quite quickly.

It's not perfect, but is somewhere near what you are asking for.

Here's how it looks on Jolla1

@Edz This is exactly what I wanted, thank you! You should post it as an answer. One more thing, is there a way to set it only for vertical layout? Because in horizontal the keyboard covers most of the screen.

@JacekJagosz

As I already stated, it has an unwanted effect on the keyboard in landscape.

There probably is a way to prevent it, I'll take a look at some point and if I work it out, I'll post it here.

to prevent unwanted effect in landscape change that line to this:

height: layout ? portraitMode ? layout.height*1.25 : layout.height : 0

@kuba77 Thank you, now it is perfect!

For me also (Sony Xperia 10) and I think this should be a setting in SFOS in future. Thank you

A smartphone should never be held vertically except when making an actual phonecall. Hold your Xperia 10 horizontally and you won't have a keyboard problem. Do people who hold screens vertically have their eyes placed vertically in their face, too? Do their TV screens hang vertically on the wall? Apparently so, since many of them insist on the most loathsome thing of all, the mark of true idiots: shooting vertical video! (Also known as VVS, Vertical Video Syndrome)

Praise be to the almighty Nokia N900 that was meant as a horizontal device only. If I made a phone I would make it taze the user's hand if it detected vertical alignment without an ear being present against the device.

@bocephus - I am almost 50 and come from the old generation, who generally writes texts with one hand. Therefore we only use the thumb. Holding a phone with both hands is not an option for me only for pictures and movis. Yes, but the N900 was good. I didn't have it but admired it. After my N8, I only had the N9.
Many greetings and a nice Sunday.

The mark of a true idiot, is one who names himself after a ventriloquists dummy, eh @bocephus

@bocephus Maybe I could agree in other cases, in other phones it is faster to type with the phone sideways, but I still often typed vertically, because then you can see a lot more of what you are typing. But this topic is about an Xperia 10. And Xperia 10 is so thin, that when you turn it sideways you can see only one line of text. And if you are typing on a website it is impossible to see a thing. And if you use an Ease keyboard (like I do on the screenshots) it fills the entire screen so you can't see a thing. So vertical keyboard is still a viable option in those cases, and also if all you need it to type 2 words in a search engine. And please, don't get so riled up about somebody else preference that in the end doesn't change much.

@JacekJagosz and I thank you for your idea. I'm using Redmi 5 Plus (with SFOS) which has 18:9 screen and I didn't know that I need this but writing is better with this patch. I only decreased the value to 1.10 for me.