default keyboard spacebar

asked 2020-04-18 03:38:53 +0200

leszek gravatar image

I really don't like the default keyboard layout. It is just I hit more often then I want the . key instead of the spacebar as the spacebar is too small.

Usability tests with various different people that should type a sentence in the notes app with the default keyboard show the same issue.

So with this I want to push Jolla reconsidering the default keyboard spacebar size and make it bigger like some patches are doing it already which increases the accuracy typing on the default SailfishOS keyboard.

https://coderus.openrepos.net/pm2/project/sfos-patch-keyboard-wider-spacebar

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100% agree with this. It can be super annoying to mistype every 4th keystroke and having to go back to correct it. Multi Keyboard Layout fixes this and provides keyboards with larger spacebar, would be great if Jolla considered a redesign of the native spacebar or at least offer alternative keyboard layouts.

apostrof ( 2020-04-18 04:39:04 +0200 )edit
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Really good idea. Wider spacebar would help a lot.

TrulloF ( 2020-04-18 09:57:03 +0200 )edit

+1

Yet, from 2014, here we have the opposite request;

https://together.jolla.com/question/10472/make-the-space-bar-longer-in-native-virtual-keyboard/

Also and opposite again, related:

https://together.jolla.com/question/21510/howto-adapt-sailfish-virtual-keyboard-vkb-layout/?answer=86614#post-id-86614

I'm guessing the spacebar (space bar / space-bar) was smaller back then.

Spam Hunter ( 2020-04-18 16:52:25 +0200 )edit