I drive with my L5 magnetically mounted in my car for two hours every day – literally a daily driver! For over three years my primary wish has been functional Bluetooth hands-free operation. It worked, after a fashion, but always borked the hand off between Podcasts and Calls… no one could hear me on a call. My longstanding solution has been to hard patch the phone to automobile auxiliary in and an external microphone. This was tolerable before, and satisfactory after, the echo problem was fixed.
Now I hear Bluetooth is fixed, if you have the SparkLAN card. I bought one a couple of years ago, but I may have lost it when I moved. If I can’t find it, I will definitely buy another.
Two big advantages of wvkbd over Squeekboard come to mind:
performance. With Squeekboard, I feel like I am often waiting on the keyboard, when typing fast or switching keyboards. wvkbd is a simple C program and can pretty much keep up with however fast I want to type.
functionality. When I use modifiers to enter a key combination, such as Shift+Ctrl+C in terminal to copy to clipboard, wvkbd behaves exactly like it should, by passing the combination of keypresses on to program I am using. On the other hand, Squeekboard follows a paradigm where the devs arbitrarily decide which combinations make sense to pass through, so the modifiers work inconsistently.
Hmm, never thought about it. But Git said it is written in Rust and C, so programming language shouldn’t be the issue here, if there is any.
The combination of Shift+Ctrl+C or whatever you want (Shift+Arrow to mark text or files/folders etc), everything is possible. Shift was just enabled in 1.43, so not available in Byzantium and Crimson. Two posts of mine above you can watch may custom layout that has two shift keys. The Shift-key in cyan (same color as other modifiers) is the the modifier for shortcuts.
This may turn into a wishlist thread so i’ll just remind myself of OPs question (emphasis added by me):
Also, I think “we” and “others” are vastly different types of audiences/users so perhaps we need separate threads for each…
Some of us may not like Flathub repo or Waydroid set up out of the box, but they’re absolutely necessary for onboarding normal users coming from outside our Free Software / GNU Linux spheres.
A good idea. But there will probably also be overlap. If we stay on topic in this thread, and limit us to the most missed and most wanted, one thread might still be clear enough.