Hey Rinigus, I've been out of the Jolla ecosystem for a while (since my phone was lost a couple of years ago), so can't say anything much about the Jolla keyboard; but I was the lead developer on the Ubuntu Keyboard at Canonical so am happy to answer any specific questions you have about that.
Cheers, Mike On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 7:14 PM, rinigus <rinigus....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question regarding the longer term plans for keyboard development > in SFOS. Namely, @martonmiklos has brought over Presage predictor to SFOS > and already published keyboard using this library. I think its a great > development and together with @ljo we have been helping @martonmiklos to > make this plugin better. Please note that below, I speak for myself and I > haven't checked whether these questions even make sense with others. > > At present, the released plugin has been enhanced by making it fast > through using different language model storage/query mechanism, using > relatively small size of n-gram database (English 5MB, Estonian 10MB), made > asynchronous to ensure that the user's input is not lagging behind, and > just extended with Hunspell speller as an additional "predictor". All is in > the testing / bugfixing stage. In longer term, with the right effort, we > could get very well working open-source predictive engine and keyboard. > > I am trying to understand how the pieces fall together and I am not sure > 100% whether I do. I can see that SFOS uses proprietary jolla-keyboard and > the developed Presage input handler extends it. Which is fine, but maybe we > could go deeper and do better. > > From looking around, Maliit has adopted keyboard developed by Ubuntu > Touch as a reference, corresponding Maliit repo https://github.com/ > maliit/keyboard . In addition to UBPorts, the same keyboard is used by > LuneOS. This design already supports Presage and Hunspell, also done in > asynchronous manner as we are testing for SFOS now. It has support for > quite a few number of languages, pinyin, and emoji. I do not know how this > design compares to the internals of jolla-keyboard and maybe someone can > share their knowledge regarding it. I would expect that it was developed on > the top of Maliit available at the time of J1 and kept as it is after that. > > Now, I do wonder what is the long term plan with the keyboard development? > From the outside of Jolla, it seems to me that it would be wise to join > forces with the others and develop this component together. Each OS in > question has their own styling, but that seems to be possible to apply on > top. > > Its not trivial to compile the latest Maliit on SFOS (they switched to > CMake based builds and few cmake configs are missing in SFOS right now), > but I expect that its possible with some effort. Just don't want to spend > too much time if it's gonna be without any use. > > So, to summarize, I would like to hear what's an opinion on the raised > issues by those who know. Would be great to know plans and comparison of > jolla-keyboard with the current Maliit UBPorts/LuneOS versions. > > Best wishes, > > Rinigus > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscribe@lists. > sailfishos.org >
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