Gboard Double Sided Version • Hacker News Board

I get that this is one of their jokes, to get attention and for fun. But it would be great if Gboard itself was open source though. I could do a ton of improvements for myself at least. I love the slide / swipe typing gesture input mode in Gboard but it's needlessly closed source. There could be big privacy improvements and great features added. Maybe AnySoftKeyboard is good enough now, I'll check again.

Re: Gboard Double Sided Version

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Post by stavros » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 9:36 AM UTC

nsonha wrote: post #8

Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #2

Google Japan has a long history of making joke keyboards like this. The linear one is one of my favorites.

Just to clarify are you talking about the lllong longgg single row keyboard?

Yes: https://g.co/____

Re: Gboard Double Sided Version

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Post by stavros » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 9:46 AM UTC

knodi123 wrote: post #9

Filligree wrote: post #3

False advertising. This thing is only single-sided!

and, topologically speaking, it's equivalent to a coffee cup!

Because of the handle, you mean?

Re: Gboard Double Sided Version

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Post by therealmarv » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 10:54 AM UTC

luke-stanley wrote: post #14

I get that this is one of their jokes, to get attention and for fun. But it would be great if Gboard itself was open source though. I could do a ton of improvements for myself at least. I love the slide / swipe typing gesture input mode in Gboard but it's needlessly closed source. There could be big privacy improvements and great features added. Maybe AnySoftKeyboard is good enough now, I'll check again.

Use it in GrapheneOS and block its Internet access completely to solve your privacy complains.

Re: Gboard Double Sided Version

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Post by nsonha » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 11:01 AM UTC

stavros wrote: post #15

nsonha wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to clarify are you talking about the lllong longgg single row keyboard?

Yes: https://g.co/____

Would love to see they tie it up to https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6-1Ue0FFrHY

Re: Gboard Double Sided Version

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Post by svat » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 11:15 AM UTC

The "official" landing page from where this GitHub page is linked: g.co/double-sided = https://landing.google.co.jp/double-sided/ (the video is amazing, and many of the jokes carry over from Japanese in the English subtitles)

Re: Gboard Double Sided Version

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Post by magarnicle » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 11:37 AM UTC

luke-stanley wrote: post #14

I get that this is one of their jokes, to get attention and for fun. But it would be great if Gboard itself was open source though. I could do a ton of improvements for myself at least. I love the slide / swipe typing gesture input mode in Gboard but it's needlessly closed source. There could be big privacy improvements and great features added. Maybe AnySoftKeyboard is good enough now, I'll check again.

I'm working on a keyboard. What improvements would you make?