You’re right to correct me, I’d forgotten over the passage of time. Not sure if that changes my mind as such but it’s well worth correcting.

I cannot comprehend why it hasn't been renamed yet.

from the very awkward Graphics Image Manipulation Program

I hate to be the Well ackshully guy, but for the record it's GNU Image Manipulation Program

FYI it's a month old blogpost

sudo make me a sandwich

Yes. It also seems obvious, to me at least, from the very awkward Graphics Image Manipulation Program phrase that someone went to pains to achieve the acronym. Very unpleasant and petty, in my opinion.

I would never mention the existence of or my use of this program in a professional setting. But I tend to not mention it at all now because accessibility is in our communities too.

Holy crap, isn’t that the truth? The worst thing about GIMP is its name.

Liam: What I like least about GIMP is the name, because I work in accessibility. So for example, I can’t wear the GIMP shirt at work because there will be people who are upset.

Amen to that.

It looks great. Good job. I'm typing this with it.

Be careful with what you wish for when using suck. I lost a friend that way. Now I have a cat that likes files.

And 43% of people speak languages from the Indo-European family. I just finished reading Proto which explains how this happened. It's a wild story.

Wow, you're so brave

I just looked this up and apparently Papua New Guinea alone has over 800 languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_languages

There are over 7000 languages in the world according to https://www.ethnologue.com/

Thanks I hate it

I cannot believe your very civil and polite response was downvoted >:( Wishing you many pleasant interactions on Fedi!

No way there are 600+ languages. What do they count? English, Old English, Middle English, Slightly Older Than Middle English, The English Mel Gibson Spoke In Braveheart...?

Fair Enough. For me its still better than Google, and the language support and Swype has performed better for me than Helioboard did.

Can it do multiple languages at once?

If AI isn't off the table why isn't it able to use open models to bring feature parity to the lite version, even if it doesn't work quite as well as Google?

Decided to try it out. Its off by default when setting up and you need your own API key. You can also have a fully offline version if you want.

Likewise, I don't even have a spellchecker on mine; but I do have a bunch of other keyboards ƚɒʜƚ ᶜᵃⁿ m̶̡͚̲̻̳͙̰̩̦̤̦̪̫̻̽͗̊́̎̍͗ͅá̷̧̪̣̞̱̗̩̌̾̎̈̂̆͋͋̐͊͘̚̕͜ḳ̸̹͖́̑̑̃͌͂̋͜e̶̢̢͕̯̭̠̪̮̯͖͎̗̦͉̓̓̀̅̓̿ ̶͓̲̱͎̻̣́͛̍͗͆̄̿͛̕͜͜͜ 𝖆 𝖇𝖚𝖓𝖈𝖍 🅾🅵 𝕨𝕖𝕚𝕣𝕕 ԏєҳԏ. 𝓘𝓽‘𝓼 𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓬𝔂 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽.٩(♡ε♡ )۶

I think this has the highest number of features amongst all android keyboard apps. I really like this.

It seems to have a focus into typing Bangla language. I don't have a use for it but still find it refreshing that we are seeing a better representation of languages other than English.

You know, despite the massive amount of iffy stuff, I tried it.

It works really well. I wish I could find something in the way of critique, but all I have is that there's too many options to sort through easily. Which, it's obviously designed to be a kitchen sink kind of thing, so I don't think that's a legitimate complaint. I do, however, think that it'll be offputting to a lot of people, particularly when so many of the options are going to be unwanted. I don't think many people are looking to have their keyboard do currency conversions, as an example.

Some will, absolutely; but I think that there's always going to be multiple things that any given user isn't going to want, and the process of onboarding is dense enough that a lot of people are likely to nope out.

So, if the degree of bells and whistles is a major goal, expect there to be objections. Otherwise, maybe shift more of those options to be plugins that have to be actively plugged in rather than a toggle, even in the full version.

In terms of basic function though, it's solid. Glide typing is good, no real issues there that aren't inherent to learning a new keyboard, and less than some. Prediction is good, though some longer words get truncated and ellipsissed into illegibility. Which is also a problem any keyboard will have unless it finds a way to expand the suggestion bar beyond what's normal. Swype is the only one I ever used that reliably just displays brobdingnagian words, and it starts out with a wider suggestion bar to begin with, that you can scroll to the side with. Which may be something to look into for the more loquacious logophiles out there.

I'm not an anti ai absolutist at all, though I lack any trust in the commercial options out there by virtue of them having stolen their entire training.

While I can't be arsed to do a proper feature request, one of the best things about Swype is it's layout of secondary keys. They're a bit better than most in terms of where it places more often used symbols. Being able to customize symbols layout would be a phenomenal feature that I've only seen on heliboard lately.

Not gonna lie, florisboard fits my needs better than anything but swype so far. But this comes in a not too distant third. That's saying a lot from me.