| ▲ | ravenstine 3 hours ago |
| I hope they replace the AOSP keyboard with FUTO keyboard. I'm mostly fine with the other stock apps, but that keyboard was the one thing I absolutely had to end up replacing due to its jenky behavior. |
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| ▲ | Cider9986 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I agree FUTO is the best right now but it's not open source so they won't. |
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| ▲ | Groxx 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The source is here: https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/latinime Featured prominently in the "Source Code" container on https://keyboard.futo.tech/ AFAIK everything FUTO makes is open source? I haven't seen a counter-example (I have not looked hard though!), and https://futo.tech/about claims the following: >All FUTO-funded projects are expected to be open source or develop a plan to eventually become so. No effort will ever be taken to hide from the people what their computers are doing, to limit how they use them, or to modify their behavior through their software. | | |
| ▲ | mrob 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | From the LICENSE file: https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/latinime/-/blob/master/LICE... >You may modify the software only for non-commercial purposes such as personal use for research, experiment, and testing for the benefit of public knowledge, personal study, private entertainment, hobby projects, amateur pursuits, or religious observance, all without any anticipated commercial application. Violates clause 3 (Derived Works) and clause 6 (No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor) of the Open Source Definition [0]. >You may distribute the software or any part of its source code only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes. Violates clause 1 (Free Redistribution) and clause 6. >Notwithstanding the above, you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others. Violates clause 3. It is a "source available" license, not Open Source. [0] https://opensource.org/osd | | |
| ▲ | Groxx an hour ago | parent [-] | | Ah, yeah, agreed - "source available" fits that much better. I'm pretty sure that's the same for immich (which is also from FUTO). Thank you for the details! That lays it out nicely for anyone else passing through. |
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| ▲ | idle_zealot 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/latinime/-/blob/master/LICE... It is not open source. They use a custom source available license. There's no way any Android distribution would include it. A layman's reading is that FUTO could claim license violation on account of the distribution accepting donations (non-commercial use only) and there's a weird clause about not accusing FUTO of patent infringement. | | | |
| ▲ | jazzyjackson 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Right, they are adhering to a definition of open that includes free as in liberty, so licensing matters. What good is it to read the source if I don’t have rights to modify and redistribute? |
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| ▲ | wolvoleo an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | broodbucket 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I use Gboard with the network permission disabled. It works well but I hope they have a better stock keyboard, I haven't found any others that don't annoy me in one way or another. |
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| ▲ | MrDrMcCoy 18 minutes ago | parent [-] | | The latest FUTO works just as well as Gboard for me. Their somewhat recent update to their swiping library really changed the game, and their voice recognition is also pretty decent. |
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| ▲ | Geezus_42 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I wish Futo had the ability to use a typing heat map for more accurate predictions like SwiftKey. It constantly suggests "AMD" when I am trying to type "and". I have fat thumbs OK! I don't even have the caps on and I RARELY talk about AMD. It's just the one thing I miss. I do find the predictions generally less accurate as well, but perfectly usable. |
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| ▲ | dsr_ 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Heliboard is good, customizable, and actually open source - GPL3. |
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| ▲ | sublinear 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I like Heliboard a lot, but its autocorrect gets stuck in the mud all the time. It completely falls apart and starts injecting nonsense phrases made up of nonsense misspelled words moment you miss a space ('v' or 'b') or type a really long word it doesn't know. It also stubbornly incorrects other things like 'a' into "and" if it thinks it knows a phrase fragment. It's always wrong. It just happened to me now twice. Above, "or type a" became "or type and". Also, "it's" became "IRS". Heliboard would be perfect if it stuck to word-only spellcheck and never split words. Just now again, it tried correcting "heliboard" into "hellenized" and "he lib oars". This is not a matter of just lowering how aggressive the spellcheck is. It will still generate slop every time. The only real option is to completely turn it off. Futo can have similar problems, but there are a lot more options to tweak and the defaults aren't so bad. | | |
| ▲ | NewJazz 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I turn off automatic autocorrect except for "I". I can use it manually when I need it (jot often). | |
| ▲ | armadyl 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | this was my experience. the autocorrect for heliboard is beyond atrocious and renders the keyboard unusable. i ended up just using gboard on gos because every other one i tried fell short. hopefully the stock gos one can be reworked into an actually decent keyboard. |
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| ▲ | matheusmoreira 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Why not Unexpected Keyboard? |
