Guido Günther

Ever since doing the initial completion support in #phosh 's osk-stub I wanted to add a generic "unix pipe" like completer. phosh-osk-stub would feed the program preedit on stdin and read the completions from the program's stdout.

That is there now and with that and some more changes I can use @zachdecook 's #swipeGuess to do swipe like typing. To be clear: all the hard work is done by swipeGuess, phosh-osk-stub just piggy backs on it:

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Apr 25, 2023 at 5:03pmWeb
Show threadGuido GüntherApr 25, 2023

Video is at 1 x speed

- @zachdecook's swipeGuess: https://git.sr.ht/~earboxer/swipeGuess
- phosh-osk-stub's pipe completer: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-osk-stub/-/merge_requests/76
- you also need https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-osk-stub/-/merge_requests/77 to avoid having to lift your finger

~earboxer/swipeGuess - Turn swipes into words -- "plugin" for wvkbd to enable swipe-typing under wayland SXMO. - sourcehut git

Show threadDavid  Apr 25, 2023

@agx @zachdecook

Is this coming in the nearish term to the repo? Or is your advice to build from source of we want it on our Librem 5?

Show threadGuido GüntherApr 26, 2023
@dperson @zachdecook The completer itself will likely make it into #phosh-osk-stub 0.26.0 but the plumbing (disable completion, swiping over characters) needs a bit more time so that won't be in any repos too soon.
Building a Debian package from the Merge request is simple though (as it contains the packaging data). You also need to build and configure swipeGuess.
Show threadZach "earboxer" DeCookApr 27, 2023
@agx @dperson phosh crashes "Oh no!" when I `killall squeekboard && _build/run --replace` in Byzantium 🙁
Show threadGuido GüntherApr 27, 2023
@zachdecook @dperson squeekboard doesn't like to be replaced (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard/-/issues/361) . phosh-osk-stub can replace itself though (that's what I'm usually using). If you don't want to use the debian package and `update-alternatives` you can add phosh-osk-stub to /usr/bin/osk-wayland .
Please allow for dbus replacement (#361) · Issues · World / Phosh / squeekboard · GitLab

phosh-osk-stub (optionally) allows other processes to own the sm.puri.OSK0 dbus name (

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Show threadbaliceauxPelicanApr 25, 2023
@agx @zachdecook does this mean it's finally possible to connect that stub to something like fcitx or ibus to get support for chinese and other languages?
Show threadGuido GüntherApr 26, 2023
@baliceauxPelican @zachdecook The possibility for doing that has been available since some time, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-osk-stub/-/merge_requests/34 (using uim) or
https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-osk-stub/-/tree/wip/libvarnam (using varnam) - for other completers. Looking forward to someone looking into fcitx or ibus.
Draft: Use uim for Japanese input (!34) · Merge requests · Guido Günther / phosh-osk-stub · GitLab

Based on !8 use the completion infrastructure to wire up uim. Things...

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Show threadZach "earboxer" DeCookApr 25, 2023
@agx and today keeps getting better! My #Librem5 arrived so I'm going to be playing with #phosh a lot more. Happy to support a healthy software-keyboard ecosystem!
Show threadGuido GüntherApr 26, 2023
@zachdecook What a coincidence 🚀 I have to admit that this was the first time I used swipe input (my previous phone had a hardware keyboard)
Show threadgnuntooApr 25, 2023
@agx @zachdecook does the keyboard have that thing where touch zone sizes for the keys change based on what the next letter is likely to be? or is that patented by apple or something
Show threadCalicosineApr 26, 2023
@gnuntoo If that's an Apple thing, honestly I'd say it's not even worth looking into on the technical aspect alone, because the iOS keyboard is the worst software keyboard I've ever used and sometimes I try to tap a key and it gives the wrong one or shows a preview of the wrong one but gives me the right one and I end up wasting time correcting it because I thought it was wrong. I just want WordFlow 8.1 back.
Show threadgnuntooApr 26, 2023
@DrewNaylor I agree the current iOS keyboard is horrible, but this feature was around since day 1 of the iPhone. I’m not sure it’s to blame for crappy keyboards. I think it’s mostly the bad ML Apple has in it that’s the problem. Autocorrect could be enough on its own though, I don’t know
Show threadCalicosineApr 26, 2023
@gnuntoo It would be even worse if I still had autocorrect on. It could be Apple's algorithm, because I never had this problem with my Windows Phones.
Show threadDaniel WoodApr 26, 2023
@agx @zachdecook could this isolate swiping the spacebar to position the cursor?
Show threadGuido GüntherApr 26, 2023
@dubstar_04 @zachdecook Swiping the spacebar to position the cursor in unaffected by this as the OSK switches to a different "mode" for that.
Show threadدانیال بهزادی 🦁Apr 26, 2023
@agx @zachdecook
We got swipe typing sooner than lineageOS!
Show threadGuido GüntherApr 27, 2023
@danialbehzadi @zachdecook ...well it's not all merged yet 😃