Florisboard is nice.
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0x4E4F@infosec.pub 11 months agoOK, what if I just care for privacy and I’m happy with the QWERTY layout?
I’d love to ditch Gboard, but it has my language in it, plus word underline when misspelling words. I don’t use predictive text or anything like that, just underline.
Alternatives?
Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
iiGxC@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Florisboard, openboard, anysoftkeyboard
0x4E4F@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Which of them offer spelling check underline?
iiGxC@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Idk if that’s a feature keyboards have or if it’s more on the os side
0x4E4F@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Have no idea. I just know that Swift only does word suggestion, couldn’t find an option to just underline words.
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’ve not tried Florisboard yet, but OpenBoard doesn’t have it (neither in the main build nor forks from what I can tell) and nor is it available in AnySoftKeyboard’s default install, but it’s highly customizable so it may be an option there.
That said, isn’t spellcheck underlining more frequently in the apps you’re typing into rather than the virtual keyboard? Tbh I hadn’t ever noticed it in Gboard before, but I haven’t used it in a little while (though in looking into its settings I see it now, I guess I thought it’d been the other apps instead the whole time).
0x4E4F@infosec.pub 11 months ago
That is something that has always puzzled me, and yes, I believe you’re right.
But, the confusing part for me is, Gboard has a spellcheck option, and if I disable it, it doesn’t underline words when typing (in apps that normally check spelling).
But, let’s take Jerboa for example. It doesn’t work in Jerboa. No matter if enabled or disabled, there is no spellcheck in Jerboa, period.
And that is why things are confusing. Is it the apps that do the spellcheck or the keyboard 🤔.
Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
You can enable spell check underline even for keyboards that don’t have it, by changing which app it uses for spell checker specifically. In my case it’s under Android settings >> System >> Languages & input >> Spell checker (under the Tools category), It might be different on your phone, in that case I guess you can just search for “Spell checker” and then u can use Gboard for spell checking for example.
0x4E4F@infosec.pub 10 months ago
That’s just it. It’s set to Gboard spell checker, but it doesn’t work in Jerboa.