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HeliBoard 3.7 (github.com)

cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/45175848

Just got pleasantly surprised by the 3.7 release!!

Thx devs & contributors for keeping the project alive!

/HeliBoard/releases

Changes since 3.7-beta1:

- fix issues with selection wrapping
- add info to timestamp setting on how to get the button
- additional info dialogs about gesture data gathering

Changes since 3.6:

- add ("normal" / non-inline) emoji search, by @eranl (#1765)
-- needs emoji dictionary from dictionaries repository
- add optional gesture data gathering functionality (#1641)
-- requires gesture typing library, see #2226 for info
- wrap selected text in braces and similar instead of replacing text (#1948)
- better detection of which emojis are available
- allow setting a separate emoji font (#1565)
- make showing number row in symbols layout optional
- reduce bad autocorrections for mail addresses
- fix space bar cursor movement for RTL + non-RTL text, by @eranl (#2199)
- don't trim selection when recapitalizing, by @devycarol (#2225)
- improve khipro combiner, by @qomarhsn (#2134, #2239)
- update Kaitag layout, by @alkaitagi (#2306) minor fixes and improvements

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[-] Butterbee@beehaw.org 15 points 2 days ago

It just blows my mind that things got to the point where we have to seek a privacy focused not-internet-connected keyboard when that should have been the default all along.

[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 12 points 2 days ago

HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious and customizable open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard. Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline.

[-] FlareHeart@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

I've been using this keyboard for a couple years now and I really like that it's just a keyboard. No fluff, no bloat, no internet required. Just a good keyboard.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 days ago
[-] futurk@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago

Probably the one and only FOSS multilingual keyboard app out there. It is just great.

[-] chamomile@furry.engineer 4 points 2 days ago

@Evil_Shrubbery Haven't gotten the update yet, but based on the release notes it appears 3.7 introduces an emoji search box, which was much-needed! Really happy to see that.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 2 days ago

You have to add an emoji dictionary for that. You can download them here: https://codeberg.org/Helium314/aosp-dictionaries/src/branch/main/emoji_cldr_signal_dictionaries ๐Ÿ‘

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago
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