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My understanding is that modern touchscreen keyboard use very aggressive predictive text so that the actual "shape" of the keys in terms of where you touch the screen isn't even well defined. This certainly feels like the case in contexts where it's turned off, like Google Search. Is this more of an aesthetic thing?
In some languages that's the way to go but I have any type of autocorrect or prediction turned off as it doesn't help.
The way this was tested too was weird. I had the round keys for one interaction and then they went away. I can't find an option to even turn them on if I wanted to.
I guess one way to test stuff is good or not is to see how many people complain about it so open betas seem to have a good audience.
Bring back slide out keyboards - I deeply miss my Droid that had this. so much nicer to type on.
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Are there any decent but basic swipe keyboards? Swiftkey was miles better than Gboard, but Microsoft acquired it and made it crap. It's got AI in it now apparently...
They've all gone to crap unfortunately, like much of consumer software imo.
Futo Keyboard is pretty good: https://keyboard.futo.org/
It also has local AI for offline voice recognition, which works really well for me.
I hate Ghoulgle's keyboard, somewhat passionately when I'm feeling peaceful.

I once installed a 3rd party keyboard and was naive enough to disable gboard. I was of course very pleased to find no method of entering my creds upon reboot. I had to reinstall.

I loved this keyboard when I had an Android phone. Its voice typing accuracy was very good. iOS voice typing leaves so much to be desired.
I just want a damn Ctrl key......
Hacker's keyboard is your best bet... (Just didn't get any updates in 6 years)

Oh yeah and the anysoft keyboard has a terminal version as well

Ah the engineer in charge of the keyboard button shape finally gets to earn his RSUs
It’s not a big deal.

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…as big as you’re making it seem