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I cannot believe "people" like this actually exist
A few days back someone posted this article on the firefox subreddit. It is a well written article with good points, but the hivemind ignored the content of the article and resorted to ad hominems and name calling because the author is a supposed right winger. It would not be surprising if the post was removed by now.
The censorship on firefox forums is insane
This might be the most low quality post I've ever seen
The problem with mozilla is they forget about their browser and completely ignore it. It's almost like even they have given up on firefox...
Qksms for messaging. Material Files for file management.
Apple doesn't have a mascot, so gnome doesn't have one either.
What features does it have that aren't present in AnySoftKeyboard?
I wrote a long reply to another comment in this thread. You can check it.
By word suggestions do you mean autocorrect?
Word suggestions when you type a few letters. But yes it's autocorrect is severely lacking.
Is there some way to get rid of the massive utility row?
I believe it's called "smart bar". It can be disabled.
Or customize long press length?
Yes
Or have only punctuatiom symbols on the period and numbers in the qwerty row?
I don't know about this.
I tried AnySoftKeyboard again as it's been a while since I used it and here are my thoughts.
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FlorisBoard has a lot of small things that can make interacting with text easier. You can have a toolbar in addition to the number row which has buttons for copy, paste, select all, cut and paste. This eliminates the need for long pressing text to invoke these actions. There's a layout called "Quick Text Editing" in ASK but that disables the number row. This is quite a deal breaker.
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It also has a clipboard manager which was missing in ASK.
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You can add a secondary toolbar which has buttons for undo and redo. This is one of the most useful feature for me. It allows you to, well, undo and redo text basically everywhere. This is helpful since text input fields don't have a way to undo and redo text. It can be a lifesaver in many occasions.
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Swiping left/right on the spacebar is faster and feels natural compared to ASK's one character movement per swipe. Swiping from one end of the spacebar to the other end moves the cursor by many number of letters depending on speed. On ASK swiping from one end to other moves the cursor by only one letter.
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You can create custom themes on FlorisBoard locally by editing a few variables. This is not a huge thing but it might be useful.
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In FlorisBoard long pressing letters inserts symbols instead of variations of the letter.
Of course most of these are small and won't concern most people, but these are good quality of life additions for me.
Florisboard has many good features and is insanely customizable which are not present in AnySoftKeyboard. The only thing lacking as of now is the inferior swipe typing and word suggestions.