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Dear Sailors,

switching between virtual keyboard layouts via the space key results in an awkward user experience, if more than two layouts are configured (e.g. English, another language and Emoji keyboard), especially when using the split vKBD (in landscape orientation) with layouts providing small space keys.

Hence I appreciate the suggestion made by @sledges in the Mer meeting on 2017-10-18, 08:12:54 very much:

would miss [...] the unimplemented "swipe-sideways-to-change-layouts"

This would constitute a huge usability improvement for those using more than two layout regularly and is supposedly (on first sight) not too hard to implement.
Thus I am documenting this idea here.

Side note: I absolutely accord to the statements in that Mer meeting, that the existing features of the vKBD are really nice, but unfortunately not well documented (e.g. in the tutorial): * Swipe down to hide keyboard. This also resets "stuck word suggestions (T9)", which sometimes occurs. * Longpress on space key to switch between layouts, when only two layouts are configured.

Dear Sailors,

switching between virtual keyboard layouts via the space key results in an awkward user experience, if more than two layouts are configured (e.g. English, another language and Emoji keyboard), especially when using the split vKBD (in landscape orientation) with layouts providing small space keys.

Hence I appreciate the suggestion made by @sledges in the Mer meeting on 2017-10-18, 08:12:54 very much:

would miss [...] the unimplemented "swipe-sideways-to-change-layouts"

This would constitute a huge usability improvement for those using more than two layout regularly and is supposedly (on first sight) not too hard to implement.
Thus I am documenting this idea here.

Side note: I absolutely accord to the statements in that Mer meeting, that the existing features of the vKBD are really nice, but unfortunately not well documented (e.g. in the tutorial): * tutorial):

• Swipe down to hide keyboard. This also resets "stuck word suggestions (T9)", which sometimes occurs. * occurs.
• Longpress on space key to switch between layouts, when only two layouts are configured.

Cheers & happy sailing.

Dear Sailors,

switching between virtual keyboard layouts via the space key results in an awkward user experience, if more than two layouts are configured (e.g. English, another language and Emoji keyboard), especially when using the split vKBD (in landscape orientation) with layouts providing small space keys.

Hence I appreciate the suggestion made by @sledges in the Mer meeting on 2017-10-18, 08:12:54 very much:

would miss [...] the unimplemented "swipe-sideways-to-change-layouts"

This would constitute a huge usability improvement for those using more than two layout regularly and is supposedly (on first sight) not too hard to implement.
Thus I am documenting this idea here.

Side note: I absolutely accord to the statements in that Mer meeting, that the existing features of the vKBD are really nice, but unfortunately not well documented (e.g. in the tutorial):

• Swipe down to hide keyboard.
  This also resets "stuck word suggestions (T9)", (T9)" bug, which sometimes occurs.
• Longpress on space key to switch switches between layouts, when only two layouts are configured.

Cheers & happy sailing.

Dear Sailors,

switching between virtual keyboard layouts via the space key results in an awkward user experience, if more than two layouts are configured (e.g. English, another language and Emoji keyboard), especially when using the split vKBD (in landscape orientation) with and/or layouts providing small space keys.

Hence I appreciate the suggestion made by @sledges in the Mer meeting on 2017-10-18, 08:12:54 very much:

would miss [...] the unimplemented "swipe-sideways-to-change-layouts"

This would constitute a huge usability improvement for those using more than two layout regularly and is supposedly (on first sight) not too hard to implement.
Thus I am documenting this idea here.

Side note: I absolutely accord to the statements in that Mer meeting, that the existing features of the vKBD are really nice, but unfortunately not well documented (e.g. in the tutorial):

• Swipe down to hide keyboard.
  This also resets "stuck word suggestions (T9)" bug, which sometimes occurs.
• Longpress on space key switches between layouts, when only two layouts are configured.

Cheers & happy sailing.

Dear Sailors,

switching between virtual keyboard layouts via the space key results in an awkward user experience, if more than two layouts are configured (e.g. English, another language and Emoji keyboard), especially when using the split vKBD (in landscape orientation) and/or layouts providing small space keys.

Hence I appreciate the suggestion made by @sledges in the Mer meeting on 2017-10-18, 08:12:54 very much:

would miss [...] the unimplemented "swipe-sideways-to-change-layouts"

This would constitute a huge usability improvement for those using more than two layout regularly and is supposedly (on first sight) not too hard to implement.
Thus I am documenting this idea here.

Side note: note: I absolutely accord to the statements in that Mer meeting, that the existing features of the vKBD are really nice, but unfortunately not well documented (e.g. in the tutorial):

• Swipe down to hide keyboard.
  This also resets "stuck word suggestions (T9)" bug, which sometimes occurs.
• Longpress on space key switches between layouts, when only two layouts are configured.

Cheers & happy sailing.

Dear Sailors,

switching between virtual keyboard layouts via the space key results in an awkward user experience, if more than two layouts are configured (e.g. English, another language and Emoji keyboard), especially when using the split vKBD (in landscape orientation) and/or layouts providing small space keys.

Hence I appreciate the suggestion made by @sledges in the Mer meeting on 2017-10-18, 08:12:54 very much:

would miss [...] the unimplemented "swipe-sideways-to-change-layouts"

This would constitute a huge usability improvement for those using more than two layout regularly and is supposedly (on first sight) not too hard to implement.
Thus I am documenting this idea here.

Side note: I absolutely accord to the statements in that Mer meeting, that the these two existing features of the vKBD are really nice, but unfortunately not well documented (e.g. in the tutorial):

• Swipe down to hide keyboard.
  This also resets "stuck word suggestions (T9)" bug, which sometimes occurs.
• Longpress on space key switches between layouts, when only two layouts are configured.

Cheers & happy sailing.

Dear Sailors,

switching between virtual keyboard layouts via the space key results in an awkward user experience, if more than two layouts are configured (e.g. English, another language and Emoji keyboard), especially when using the split vKBD (in landscape orientation) and/or layouts providing small space keys.keys (e.g. the "arrow" keyboards from OpenRepos).

Hence I appreciate the suggestion made by @sledges in the Mer meeting on 2017-10-18, 08:12:54 very much:

much: would miss [...] the unimplemented "swipe-sideways-to-change-layouts"

This would constitute a huge usability improvement for those using more than two layout regularly and is supposedly (on first sight) not too hard to implement.
Thus I am documenting this idea here.

Side note: I absolutely accord to the statements in that Mer meeting, that these two existing features of the vKBD are really nice, but unfortunately not well documented (e.g. in the tutorial):

• Swipe down to hide keyboard.
  This also resets "stuck word suggestions (T9)" bug, which sometimes occurs.
• Longpress on space key switches between layouts, when only two layouts are configured.

Cheers & happy sailing.

Dear Sailors,

switching between virtual keyboard layouts via the space key results in an awkward user experience, if more than two layouts are configured (e.g. English, another language and Emoji keyboard), especially when using the split vKBD (in landscape orientation) and/or layouts providing small space keys (e.g. the "arrow" keyboards from OpenRepos).

Hence I appreciate the suggestion made by @sledges in the Mer meeting on 2017-10-18, 08:12:54 very much: would miss [...] the unimplemented "swipe-sideways-to-change-layouts"

This would constitute a huge usability improvement for those using more than two layout regularly and is supposedly (on first sight) not too hard to implement.
Thus I am documenting this idea here.

Side note: I absolutely accord to the statements in that Mer meeting, that these two existing features of the vKBD are really nice, but unfortunately not well documented (e.g. in the tutorial):

• Swipe down to hide keyboard.
  This also resets "stuck word suggestions (T9)" bug, which sometimes occurs.
• Longpress on space key switches between layouts, when only two layouts are configured.

Cheers & happy sailing.

Dear Sailors,

switching between virtual keyboard layouts via the space key results in an awkward user experience, if more than two layouts are configured (e.g. English, another language and Emoji keyboard), especially when using the split vKBD (in landscape orientation) and/or layouts providing small space keys (e.g. the "arrow" keyboards from OpenRepos).

Hence I appreciate the suggestion made by @sledges in the Mer meeting on 2017-10-18, 08:12:54 very much: would miss [...] the unimplemented "swipe-sideways-to-change-layouts"

This would constitute a huge usability improvement for those using more than two layout regularly and is supposedly (on first sight) not too hard to implement.
Thus I am documenting this idea here.

Side note: I absolutely accord to the statements in that Mer meeting, that these two existing features of the vKBD are really nice, but unfortunately not well documented (e.g. in the tutorial):

• Swipe down to hide keyboard.
  This also resets "stuck word suggestions (T9)" bug, which sometimes occurs.
• Longpress and just releasing on space key key(s) switches between layouts, when only two layouts are configured.

Cheers & happy sailing.

Dear Sailors,

switching between virtual keyboard layouts via the space key results in an awkward user experience, if more than two layouts are configured (e.g. English, another language and Emoji keyboard), especially when using the split vKBD (in landscape orientation) and/or layouts providing small space keys (e.g. the "arrow" keyboards from OpenRepos).

Hence I appreciate the suggestion made by @sledges in the Mer meeting on 2017-10-18, 08:12:54 very much: would miss [...] the unimplemented "swipe-sideways-to-change-layouts"

This would constitute a huge usability improvement for those using more than two layout regularly and is supposedly (on first sight) not too hard to implement.
Thus I am documenting this idea here.

Side note: I absolutely accord to the statements in that Mer meeting, that these two existing features of the vKBD are really nice, but unfortunately not well documented (e.g. in the tutorial):

• Swipe down to hide keyboard.
  This also resets "stuck word suggestions (T9)" bug, which sometimes occurs.
• Longpress and just releasing on space key(s) switches between layouts, when only (exactly) two layouts are configured.

Cheers & happy sailing.

Dear Sailors,

switching between virtual keyboard layouts via the space key results in key(s) provides an awkward user experience, if more than two layouts are configured (e.g. English, another language and Emoji keyboard), especially when using the split vKBD (in landscape orientation) and/or layouts providing having small space keys (e.g. the "arrow" keyboards from OpenRepos).

Hence I appreciate the suggestion made by @sledges in the Mer meeting on 2017-10-18, 08:12:54 very much: would miss [...] the unimplemented "swipe-sideways-to-change-layouts"

This would constitute a huge usability improvement for those using more than two layout regularly and is supposedly (on first sight) not too hard to implement.
Thus I am documenting this idea here.

Side note: I absolutely accord to the statements in that Mer meeting, that these two existing features of the vKBD are really nice, but unfortunately not well documented (e.g. in the tutorial):

• Swipe down to hide keyboard.
  This also resets "stuck word suggestions (T9)" bug, which sometimes occurs.
• Longpress and just releasing on space key(s) switches between layouts, when (exactly) two layouts are configured.

Cheers & happy sailing.

Dear Sailors,

switching between virtual keyboard layouts via the space key(s) provides an awkward user experience, if more than two layouts are configured (e.g. English, another language and Emoji keyboard), especially when using the split vKBD (in landscape orientation) and/or layouts having small space keys (e.g. the "arrow" keyboards from OpenRepos).

Hence I appreciate the suggestion made by @sledges in the Mer meeting on 2017-10-18, 08:12:54 very much: would miss [...] the unimplemented "swipe-sideways-to-change-layouts"

This would constitute a huge usability improvement for those using more than two layout regularly and is supposedly (on first sight) not too hard to implement.
Thus I am documenting this idea here.

Side note: I absolutely accord to the statements in that Mer meeting, that these two existing features of the vKBD are really nice, but unfortunately not well documented (e.g. in the tutorial):

• Swipe down to hide keyboard.
  This also resets "stuck word suggestions (T9)" bug, which sometimes occurs.
• Longpress and just releasing on space key(s) switches between layouts, when (exactly) two vKBD layouts are configured.

Cheers & happy sailing.

Dear Sailors,

switching between virtual keyboard layouts via the space key(s) provides an awkward user experience, if more than two layouts are configured (e.g. English, another language and Emoji keyboard), especially when using the split vKBD (in landscape orientation) and/or layouts having small space keys (e.g. the "arrow" keyboards from OpenRepos).

Hence I appreciate the suggestion made by @sledges in the Mer meeting on 2017-10-18, 08:12:54 very much: would miss [...] the unimplemented "swipe-sideways-to-change-layouts"

This would constitute a huge usability improvement for those using more than two layout regularly and is supposedly (on first sight) not too hard to implement.
Thus I am documenting this idea here.

Side note: I absolutely accord to the statements in that Mer meeting, that these two existing features of the vKBD are really nice, but unfortunately not well documented (e.g. in the tutorial):

• Swipe down to hide keyboard.
  This also resets "stuck word suggestions (T9)" bug, which sometimes occurs.
• Longpress and just releasing on space key(s) switches between layouts, when (exactly) two vKBD layouts are configured.

Cheers & happy sailing.