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Drew DeVault @sir

Woah! Apparently the Librem 5 phone is using wlroots as the basis of its user interface!

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Note: I've been planning to run Sway on my Librem 5 since the day I backed the campaign

@sir does Librem 5 have a physical keyboard?

@Wolf480pl @sir I prefer software keyboards, the ability to have more or less screen space whether the program needs it is good. And software keyboards are fine given the work put into them.

@rx14 @sir I hate software keyboards. I can't feel where the keys are, and can't feel if I pressed them.

@sir @rx14 also, with sliding keyboards (like in n900) there's no screen size penalty for having a physical keyboard

@Wolf480pl @sir but you don't have to press the right keys you just need to press anything that's neighbouring. Plus you're meant to be you know looking at the screen.

@sir @Wolf480pl I type faster on fleksy than on my full sized desktop keyboard

@rx14 @sir
>any software keyboards are fine
>talks how he can type faster on one particualr screen keyboard

On Hacker's Keyboard, you have to press the right button, not sth that's neighbouring.
Also, tell me how well your keyboard handles things like
ls /var/lib/postgresql/9.6/main

@Wolf480pl @sir oh yeah for typing symbols and code they suck BALLS but I don't use that much.

@rx14 @sir also, considering the number of times I've seen screen keyboard misinterpret some rare word as some other word, in a way that totally changes the meaning of the sentence, it's shit.

@Wolf480pl @sir I thought you were looking at the input box to fix that. All it is is one swipe on fleksy to swipe through the corrections. And if you're halfway through the next word, swiping changes the prediction of the previous word which is great for coninuing flow.

@rx14 @sir ok, now is that keyboard open-source?

@sir @Wolf480pl so I can point out all the non open source parts of it.

@rx14 @sir you can be in the middle. If there is an easily available open-source alternative, I use it. If there's not, too bad, maybe we'll have one in 5 years.

@Wolf480pl @sir exactly, but this is one area where closed source is head and shoulders above the rest, and you're running a phone full of closed blobs and apps anyway so I feel it makes little difference.

@sir @Wolf480pl I'm far far more likely to choose propriatery on windows and android than I am on desktop linux.

@rx14 @sir you're meant to be looking at the input box, not at the keys you're pressing.

@rx14 @sir but would i3 or sway be comfortale with an on-screen keyboard?

@Wolf480pl @sir no, neither would they be on a phone in any form.

@jeff wlroots has been near-stable for some time. I would say it's "stable enough"