Please improve the German keyboard layout.
Monstanner opened this issue · 2 comments
First of all, thank you for the constant development. I would like to give some information about the German layout of the keyboard. The requested, and also implemented (5.4.8), layout from request #226 is the one used on the PC / laptop. There, as already described in the request, the umlaut keys are separate keys. There is the possibility, on smartphones, to display the buttons separately. However, the layout that is used by default is the one from 5.4.7. In other words, where the umlauts behind the respective letter appear by pressing the key for a long time. So as already noted in version 5.4.7. But it wasn't quite right either, because the umlauts had to be selected first. Already requested by Synthie77 here. #35
Proposal:
You have two layouts.
Layout 1 : German without separate umlaut keys (5.4.7) (Should be listed first for german)
Layout 2: German with separate umlaut keys (5.4.8)
It doesn't really bother me, but you could think again about reworking the default pop-up character. I hope that I have put everything right for the time being. If you have any questions or discrepancies about the German layout (PC, laptop or smartphone), I'm here to help. :)
*Edited: text formatting, typo.
While we’re at it, we could also think about having a German Dvorak layout with umlauts behind their respective letters. I am a Dvorak user on mobile but can’t with Simple Keyboard because when I have to type ä, ö, ü, or ß, I have to switch to German (QWERTZ) because I can’t reach those characters from the English Dvorak layout.
Big +1 from my site. I just updated the app and the new layout including extra keys for the umlauts are slowing my typing down tremendously.
Long pressing vowels for the umlauts and s for ß (instead of having the numbers or other accents first) would be amazing - especially since it is this way for Gboard and most users are probably used to that.