hold-and-drag-down to access shifted character
GBoard (I think) recently released a feature where a key that produces a different character when shifted lets you access that alternate character by dragging down on the key. Now, this tends to conflict with your keyboard’s gesture-based typing (where you trace out words); but I think something reasonably close could be implemented by requiring the typist to hold the key as long as they have to in order to raise a popup menu; then, in order to access the shifted characer, they swipe down from there.
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Just to note, this is supported already for number and symbol keys where the shifted character is punctuation or a symbol. Just swipe UP on the key to get the shifted version. We haven't done this for regular letter keys though, do you think it would be useful?
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Anonymous
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When I first saw this feature on apple keyboards I thought it was cool, but for some reason it causes me problems. You would think I'd get it to work but it just doent for me. Seriously at least half the time I get the wrong thing unless I'm slow and intentional.
I tried one other kb before this one and the press and hold to make the alternate key worked for me every time. For the same unknown reason. It just seemed intuitive and I didn't make those kind of mistakes.
All that said I'd still like to see one of those options, as another option to always moving down to the shift key.