REPRODUCIBILITY (% or how often): about 50%
BUILD ID = OS VERSION (Settings > About product): 4.3.0.12
HARDWARE (XA2, X10, X10 II, …): X 10 II
UI LANGUAGE: german
REGRESSION: (compared to previous public release: Yes, No, ?): yes, worked fine on Jolla 1 and C
DESCRIPTION:
The keyboard does not switch to Capital letters on the beginning of sentences sometimes.
PRECONDITIONS:
Open an app to type text. Bug is triggered here in the forum i.e. with the native Sailfish browser.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
Open app to type, i.e. browser and this website.
Write some sentences
Look what happens after a dot is typed. No change to capital letters.
EXPECTED RESULT:
After the end of a sentence it was comfortable to not have to press the shift button. New sentences got start with a capital letter without pressing shift.
ACTUAL RESULT:
It stays in one mode without capital letters. I have to press shift at the beginning of a new sentence.
I’ve noticed it too, but I figured it was a Presage thing… If you’re on official, you should have xt9. Last time I had xt9, I think was on 3.4, and I think those type things all worked well…
The browser is affected, but e.g. not Notes, Messaging, some Android apps (Signal, WhatsApp). Maybe this is not a bug and depends on the type of text field.
Typing in the body of a new email and ending with a full stop only switches to capitals when I add a space. This is the same for Presage and normal English keyboard.
Using the Sailfish Forum application, typing in the body of a message box does NOT switch to capitals when I add a space at the end of a sentence. Also the results are the same with Presage and English keyboard.
So there is a difference, not sure where or what to be honest.
Personally I don’t expect an automatic shift without spacing first.
I mainly wish that you could tap on a word prediction, (which automatically adds a space), then tap on, e.g., a comma, and the comma would be placed directly after the previous word, without the space in between.
Maybe remembering wrong, but I seem to.remember xt9 doing these kinds of things better …
“patch-xt9-improved…”
I can’t get xt9 at the moment. I was tempted to buy an X10ii and a license when our port changed to aarch64, so I could get official stuff, but I haven’t been able to talk myself into it yet.
At that point, I might as well just use the X10ii.
I did buy an XA2 and get a license for that reason before, but it was different, because the XA2 is vastly different design, and I knew I’d never use it. But, X10ii is just a little taller, but quite similar besides that…