[HN Gopher] Gboard Double Sided Version
___________________________________________________________________
Gboard Double Sided Version
Author : gnabgib
Score : 92 points
Date : 2024-10-07 03:23 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| Scene_Cast2 wrote:
| Google Japan has a long history of making joke keyboards like
| this. The linear one is one of my favorites.
| imkevinxu wrote:
| extremely niche internet humor and im all here for it
| nsonha wrote:
| Just to clarify are you talking about the lllong longgg single
| row keyboard?
| stavros wrote:
| Yes: https://g.co/____
| nsonha wrote:
| Would love to see they tie it up to
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6-1Ue0FFrHY
| Filligree wrote:
| False advertising.
|
| This thing is only single-sided!
| knodi123 wrote:
| and, topologically speaking, it's equivalent to a coffee cup!
| stavros wrote:
| Because of the handle, you mean?
| blensor wrote:
| Yes, a cup without a handle is just a ball
| verdverm wrote:
| apparently they are not equivalent:
| https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-
| technology/math...
| i2go wrote:
| is it? isn't a coffee cup equivalent to a torus? which is not
| equivalent to a mobius strip
| verdverm wrote:
| torus and mobius strip are both genus 1
|
| imagine inflating the mobius strip like a long balloon, so
| that it loses the edge
| carltg_ wrote:
| The genus is insufficient to determine if an object is
| equivalent to the other. Orientability distinguishes the
| mobius strip and the torus, a torus is orientable whereas
| a mobius strip is not. Therefore, topologically speaking
| they are not equivalent.
| verdverm wrote:
| What is orientability? Why is the torus able but not the
| mobius strip?
| verdverm wrote:
| https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-
| technology/math...
|
| (good images and explanation here)
| jeffbee wrote:
| Not that Gboard it seems
| qwertytyyuu wrote:
| This this is do good. Solves the issue for backend development
| 1-6 wrote:
| Meanwhile, there were two other Googlers who won Nobel Prizes.
| sdenton4 wrote:
| Oh wow; everything needed to build the linear keyboard...
|
| https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/blob/master/mozc-bar/...
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G3DWHf1xX0
| fisian wrote:
| Also check out the "promo" video for this
| https://youtu.be/EHqPrHTN1dU
| red_admiral wrote:
| This is a Moebius strip. It's technically NOT double sided.
| oniony wrote:
| Is that not the joke?
| red_admiral wrote:
| I don't know, an actually double sided keyboard would be fun
| too. This might qualify: https://www.micwil.com/images/galler
| y/safetype_safetype_vert...
| luke-stanley wrote:
| I get that this is one of their jokes, to get attention and for
| fun. But it would be great if Gboard itself was open source
| though. I could do a ton of improvements for myself at least. I
| love the slide / swipe typing gesture input mode in Gboard but
| it's needlessly closed source. There could be big privacy
| improvements and great features added. Maybe AnySoftKeyboard is
| good enough now, I'll check again.
| therealmarv wrote:
| Use it in GrapheneOS and block its Internet access completely
| to solve your privacy complains.
| magarnicle wrote:
| I'm working on a keyboard. What improvements would you make?
| Glant wrote:
| When I start typing a string that begins with "https://",
| disable autocorrect/auto capitalization. It gets frustrating
| having to fight the keyboard any time you type a url.
| bqmjjx0kac wrote:
| Yes, and if I type X, backspace, X, backspace, and click
| somewhere near X again... you'd better not say I clicked X!
| remram wrote:
| I'd take a one-touch button to temporarily disable
| autocorrect/auto-capitalization. Either toggled or until
| next space.
|
| I don't usually type the "https://" part if I'm spelling
| out a URL, and I type many more identifiers than URLs
| anyhow.
| RunningDroid wrote:
| > I'd take a one-touch button to temporarily disable
| autocorrect/auto-capitalization. Either toggled or until
| next space.
|
| AnySoftKeyboard1 has this2; the button disappears with
| the suggestions but the setting only "sticks" until you
| dismiss the keyboard.
|
| 1: https://anysoftkeyboard.github.io
|
| 2: https://i.imgur.com/CE1xeGY.jpeg
| Analemma_ wrote:
| I don't think your keyboard can help with that? All that
| stuff is being done by the operating system.
| xelamonster wrote:
| Maybe on iOS? On Android the keyboard app is fully in
| charge of autocorrect so they all behave a bit
| differently.
| Lutzb wrote:
| As a German, let me capitalize letters by pressing shift at
| the end of the word. Swiftkey had this feature. Afaik GBoard
| does not.
| magarnicle wrote:
| Do you mean capitalize the whole word you've just typed?
| luke-stanley wrote:
| -Use an old phone remotely as a wireless gesture typing
| keyboard (forwarding the keyboard I/O)
|
| -Programmer mode with SSH sanity
|
| -Custom tiny local language models for better, wiser, more
| funny suggestions that the end user could have full control
| of (the sky is the limit for this)
|
| -Maybe I want to use my task list as context for typing
| faster, maybe I want a synced knowledge network
|
| -Maybe I can want to search for "man" emoji and have it
| really work
|
| -Maybe I want real time translation built in, using a custom
| endpoint running on my GPU or latest Whisper distilled model?
| Maybe a new one that can do Markdown sarcasm formatting?
|
| I could go on and on.
|
| Text remains a very powerful input and output. They're not as
| smart as everybody who could be hacking on it, people love
| hacking on keyboards, for good reason.
|
| Gboard has many great features, privacy could even be one of
| them in the future! Swiping and it's custom models, that
| kinda know what weird topics I've typed, but not full GPT
| level, are pretty neat and make it worth considering, but
| hey, open source will get better and better. We live in an
| amazing time, with antitrust break up of Google being
| considered, open sourcing it and continuing to work on it
| with open source community could be a small win that could
| keep giving, just saying. Typed in on Gboard!
| izacus wrote:
| What's stopping you from taking the keyboard from AOSP as a
| base and applying all your cool features on top?
| Nullabillity wrote:
| GP specifically called out (Swype-style) slide-typing, which
| is indeed not in the AOSP keyboard.
| svat wrote:
| The "official" landing page from where this GitHub page is
| linked: g.co/double-sided = https://landing.google.co.jp/double-
| sided/ (the video is amazing, and many of the jokes carry over
| from Japanese in the English subtitles)
| kps wrote:
| All of the keyboards: https://g.co/double-
| sided -- (current) Gboard Double-Sided version (2024)
| https://g.co/CAPS -- Gboard CAPS version (2023)
| https://g.co/_____ -- Gboard Bar version (2022)
| https://g.co/yunomi -- Gboard Teacup version (2021)
| https://g.co/---o -- Gboard Spoon Bending Input version (2019)
| https://g.co/tegaki -- Gboard Physical Handwriting version
| (2018) https://g.co/ooooo -- Google Bubble Wrap version
| (2017) https://g.co/furikku -- Google Physical Flick
| version (2016) https://g.co/___o -- Google Party Horn
| version (2015) https://g.co/m9 -- Google Lazy Tongs
| version (2014) https://g.co/patapata -- Google Split-
| Flag version (2013)
| https://www.google.co.jp/ime/-.-.html -- Google Morse version
| (2012) https://www.google.co.jp/landing/drumsetkeyboard
| -- Google Drum set version (2010)
| Jtsummers wrote:
| As actual links so people can click on them instead of
| needing to copy/paste:
|
| https://g.co/double-sided -- (current) Gboard Double-Sided
| version (2024)
|
| https://g.co/CAPS -- Gboard CAPS version (2023)
|
| https://g.co/_____ -- Gboard Bar version (2022)
|
| https://g.co/yunomi -- Gboard Teacup version (2021)
|
| https://g.co/---o -- Gboard Spoon Bending Input version
| (2019)
|
| https://g.co/tegaki -- Gboard Physical Handwriting version
| (2018)
|
| https://g.co/ooooo -- Google Bubble Wrap version (2017)
|
| https://g.co/furikku -- Google Physical Flick version (2016)
|
| https://g.co/___o -- Google Party Horn version (2015)
|
| https://g.co/m9 -- Google Lazy Tongs version (2014)
|
| https://g.co/patapata -- Google Split-Flag version (2013)
|
| https://www.google.co.jp/ime/-.-.html -- Google Morse version
| (2012)
|
| https://www.google.co.jp/landing/drumsetkeyboard -- Google
| Drum set version (2010)
| noahbp wrote:
| Their iOS app for Gboard has been abandoned for more than two
| years despite frequent crashes. I've tried to move off of it
| multiple times, but nothing yet seems to match its swipe to text
| or autocomplete/autocorrect suggestions.
| acallaha wrote:
| I've had the same experience as well, and found SwiftKey to be
| a decent replacement (though I'd prefer gBoard if it wasn't so
| crashy)
| bloopernova wrote:
| Slightly related: Does anyone know of a simple macropad that uses
| 2u or larger keys? I just want 4 or so larger keys!
| kps wrote:
| Many (but not all) 2u keycaps will fit on a pair of switches.
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2024-10-10 23:01 UTC)