[Feature Request] Option to turn on/off keyboard word suggestions

Good to know, thank you :-)

@zlatko: Thanks a lot - fantastic answer. I will try that as soon as possible. Yet I think it is important that Jolla let users decide whether they want to use autocorrect or not and therefore this option has to be implement as soon as possible. I'm aware that Switzerland is a bit an exception with the strong German dialect we speak and write (which makes autocorrect being annyoing or/and useless) - but I'm sure there are also other people in all languages who prefer a disables autocorrect feature.

How can we remove the top row completely to save space especially in landscape mode? At the same time, clipboard key must be moved to another row if that remains the only way to use copy/paste feature.

Here is a dirty hack to set the height of the suggestion bar to whatever pixels you like. Do not blame me if it breaks something. I recommend creating a backup first! Although it did not break anything on my device.

Edit the /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/TopItem.qml file like this: search for the height: Theme.itemSizeSmall text and comment it, and insert your own value instead, like height: 8

It looks like this in my file:

//  height: Theme.itemSizeSmall
    height: 8 //or whatever

Then restart the maliit server by killing it (and it will restart automatically), or by using zlatko-s systemctl command (see above).

killall maliit-server

I am not a programmer, this is really a nasty and temporary solution. The clipboard icon is not moved, so you have only some pixels height area to tap on. You can set the height to your liking for a more/less conveniant copy-paste experience.

@cuh7b5 Thanks for the hack! For now it's the best solution.

@schturman man, youre the man!

i cant test it since i dont have v2.0.2.45, but from your screenshot it looks like you removed the suggestion but not actually the row where the suggestions would be, right?

i mean, for me thats kidna the point of this - to get more visibility...

do you think it would be possible to do that?

I'm tried to do this line invisible, but for now without success...

@Markkyboy, I already played with TopItem.qml file, but didn't get the wanted result... I just want this line transparent without changing the size.

I created new version that can also hide the Clipboard line if clipboard do not have text, it will give you some free screen space. I want also update version for 2.0.1.11, but for this I need output of TopItem.qml file from 2.0.1.11 to see if it different from 2.0.2.45. Can someone show me output of this file from 2.0.1.11 ?

cat /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/TopItem.qml

P.S. uploaded to openrepos....

TopItem.qml in 2.0.1.11:

// comments

import QtQuick 2.0
import com.jolla.keyboard 1.0
import Sailfish.Silica 1.0
import com.meego.maliitquick 1.0

CloseGestureArea {
    height: Theme.itemSizeSmall
    threshold: Math.max(keyboard.height*.3, Theme.itemSizeSmall)
    onTriggered: MInputMethodQuick.userHide()
}

Great input my friend....but for me personally, I'm struggling to find some of these lines in my Xt9InputHandler.qml.

Some line numbers would be good, which I use in Nano, by appending a '-c' at the end of the command - this gives you a line counter/number.

nano /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/Xt9InputHandler.qml -c