Replace native keyboard

[pherjung]

I discovered this nice project: https://keyboard.futo.org/

Would it be possible to use it on Sailfish OS? I must admit that the native keyboard sucks a little bit

[pvuorela]

@pherjung

Would it be possible to use it on Sailfish OS? I

Looks like an Android keyboard. Thus: no.

[pherjung]

I agree, it’s an android based keyboard. But the code base is written in C++, so I was wondering if it may have some chances.

keyboard / LatinIME · GitLab

[filip.k]

@pherjung

I must admit that the native keyboard sucks a little bit

Can you expand that?

[pvuorela]

@pherjung

But the code base is written in C++, so I was wondering if it may have some chances.

Well, without digging much to the actual code, the reusable parts might be the lower level text prediction etc. UI side unlikely has too much to reuse on a complete different environment.

[aosdinva]

I plan to attempt to build fctix during christmas holiday

Will a be a good idea (or possible) to port fcitx as default keyboard?

I recently noticed that there is even a fcitx port for android (which runs smoothly with app support on SFOS when inputting in android applications). Given that fcitx5 is very well developed and that the input method of SFOS seems to be having quite some trouble (SFOS 5.0 support no CJK till today, and lots of features missing for all languages), will it make sense to use fcitx directly? Or is there any special difficulty? (very different DBUS API?)

But I feel it will depend a lot on how usable currently the qt environment is (so that I could reuse plasma mobile’s implementation)

[simonschmeisser]

It, futo, has a strange home-grown non-commercial non-free license