The way you say that it could either mean this is something good or something bad. Just searching for the name just brings up the historical figure (which I guess is not the developer). Would you care to explain?
It took me a while to master it. At first I was typing really slowly because I had to learn where each letter was. Now that I've developed muscle-memory, I type faster than with a qwerty or swiping and single-handed.
You can! You need to use YAML but you can edit your keyboard as you wish. I use italian layout (each language uses a different one depending on what are their most used keys) and added some keys for spanish letters (like ñ or ü)
Though I have been getting used to the new placement for each letter with Thumbkey, the fact that it involves a bunch of little swipe gestures is always going to take more time/effort than just tapping away at a traditional onscreen keyboard regardless of muscle memory. I can't imagine this ever being a superior experience.
In the end, you move your fingers in a smaller space so, when typing fast enough, it gets better than qwerty just because your fingers move less. If you have big thumbs it's better too because keys are bigger. I make less typos in this keyboard than in qwerty on touchscreen and I can type with a single hand fast enough, something I can't do with qwerty. But to each their own.
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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 3 pts · 3d
Learn how to use thumb-key. It requires relearning phone-typing, but once done, you won't want any other kind of keyboard in your touchscreen.
UntimedDiffusion@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 3d
I just want to note for anyone who cares and may not have initially noticed, thumb key is developed by Dessalines
EarMaster@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
The way you say that it could either mean this is something good or something bad. Just searching for the name just brings up the historical figure (which I guess is not the developer). Would you care to explain?
UntimedDiffusion@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 2d
Dessalines is the is one of the lead developers of Lemmy and well known for suppressing speech on his instance in order to push his tankie views
Molvorin@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 2d
How is multilingual support on it?
SatyrSack@quokk.au · 1 pts · 2d
It's pretty extensive. This screenshot is far from the full list:
Furthermore, you can manually set whatever characters you want to override whatever keys you want by using custom YAML:
theyllneverfindmehere@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d
Thanks for the suggestion! Looks cool.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 2 pts · 3d
It took me a while to master it. At first I was typing really slowly because I had to learn where each letter was. Now that I've developed muscle-memory, I type faster than with a qwerty or swiping and single-handed.
theyllneverfindmehere@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d
I just need to see if I can add symbols to the unused corners like a question mark and stuff.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 3 pts · 3d
You can! You need to use YAML but you can edit your keyboard as you wish. I use italian layout (each language uses a different one depending on what are their most used keys) and added some keys for spanish letters (like ñ or ü)
theyllneverfindmehere@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d
That's really cool. Should be easy enough. Thanks again!
SatyrSack@quokk.au · 1 pts · 2d
Though I have been getting used to the new placement for each letter with Thumbkey, the fact that it involves a bunch of little swipe gestures is always going to take more time/effort than just tapping away at a traditional onscreen keyboard regardless of muscle memory. I can't imagine this ever being a superior experience.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 1 pts · 2d
In the end, you move your fingers in a smaller space so, when typing fast enough, it gets better than qwerty just because your fingers move less. If you have big thumbs it's better too because keys are bigger. I make less typos in this keyboard than in qwerty on touchscreen and I can type with a single hand fast enough, something I can't do with qwerty. But to each their own.