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Keyboard alternative to Heliboard

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As the title says I’m looking for a good alternative for Heliboard. I’ve tried a few of them and:

  • Heliboard is my favorite but the suggestions are a bit meh, sometimes it doesn’t suggest correctly or does not auto correct me. Sometimes it does but sometimes it doesn’t
  • Futo is goat in suggestions compared to Heliboard but it doesn’t have an much personalization as Heliboard (even if Heliboard isnt goat on that aspect). I can’t change symbols layout based on my taste (or muscle memory tbh), themes are a nothing crazy IMO, I wish I was able to make my own but its currently set to “coming eventually”
  • FlorisBoard was my first ever open source keyboard but at that time, it didn’t have suggestions but placeholders so I uninstalled it because I need them

I’m looking for a few things (ordered by importance):

  1. Multilanguage support for correction. Is it even possible? Before switching from Samsung Keyboard to Pixel + Foss keyboard, I think there was something similar but I could be wrong (Top priority but at the same time is optional if not possible/hard to have)
  2. Great correction for multiple languages (IMHO Futo is superior to everything I’ve tried)
  3. Customization: Symbols layout, I want to set my own symbols and “subsymbols” (? The hold to show more)
  4. Customization: Themes. I want to be able to change the colors of the keys/background/etc basically how Samsung Keyboard is customizable with the Keyboard plugin in Good Lock (or some nice themes with limited personalization but I would love to set my own colors

Thanks!

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iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
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Heliboard was showing so much promise for me, but seems development has stopped? For multi language keyboards I find it frustrating that when you hold the keys, the first symbol to show isn’t the one in the corner of the key. this is especially annoying for numbers… You’d expect the key O to give you a 9 when held, as the little 9 symbol in the corner hints. But in my case it shows first an accent-O and I’d need to scroll left a few symbols to find 9.

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Wilmo Bones@lemmy.world
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Heliboard has had a ton of commits in their repo the past few weeks. I’d expect a new release before too long but it has been a long time since the last one for sure. But it’s definitely active.

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M. Orange@beehaw.org
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New HeliBoard release just came out yesterday, so no, development has not stopped.

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