[fr] allow us to change the behavior of the utility key. about heliboard HOT 11 CLOSED

can anyone please say something?

see the pinned announcement / issue: #24
"Due to limited resources (especially time) I will ignore some issues for considerable time, and focus on what I consider priority"
I am only one person, and I also do other things than working on this keyboard.

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what you ask can be done by pressing the space bar

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what you ask can be done by pressing the space bar

nah, you have to hold that key for almost 3 seconds to get what you want.

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this is what I'm talking about:

you see the difference? it's almost instantly.

(I'm switching between Simple Keyboard and KeePassDX)

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to me it works exactly the same way as simple keyboard, practically if you have two languages, pressing the key changes the language, with a long press it changes the keyboard.

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If you select only one language in simple keyboard that key disappears completely

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However I found the commit you are referring to, this is it rkkr/simple-keyboard@1cba021

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@odmfl can you enable this option and test it again? please.

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can anyone please say something?

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FlorisBoard has an option to choose four different actions for that key:

maybe that would be a better approach?

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I touched this part when working on and testing for #89
My idea is to implement similar options, but no emoji functionality as those are covered in the emoji key already.

Current idea:

• switch language (or more precisely: keyboard layout)
• switch keyboard app
• switch both , i.e. switch keyboard app when at the end of the language list

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