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Rant: I hate the Gnome onscreen keyboard (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by Zak@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I mostly use KDE, but my experimentation and internet consensus point to Gnome being the most polished overall experience on a touchscreen. I'm mostly satisfied, except for the keyboard.

There's no number row. There's no second layer available by long-press. There's no setting to change either. There doesn't seem to be a great solution for using a third-party OSK like Onboard, especially on the lockscreen where convenient access to those special characters for those strong passwords we're surely all using might be of use.

The only option that works reliably seems to be a keyboard built as a Gnome extension. This falls pretty short of the feature set Onboard offers.

If I wanted minimalism to the point of hampering usability coupled with barriers to customizing my experience, I'd buy a fucking iPad... except those do have good thrid-party keyboard support. I don't understand what the Gnome team is thinking here.

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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There's no setting to change either

If I wanted minimalism to the point of hampering usability coupled with barriers to customizing my experience

Glad to see you're getting the true GNOME experience :3. I used GNOME for ages, and honestly the only things that I like about it weren't even base GNOME things, they were the system76 extensions lol. Once I got more interested in customizing my system the GNOME base started showing itself tho, and it was honestly so bad that I have no clue how it got so big. Like changing the date format in the Gsettings, doesn't even change it in nautilus for example

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

I'm content without a lot of customization for this application when it gets things right. The tablet is a a tertiary device that doesn't really get used for productivity.

The OSK doesn't get things right. I shouldn't have to press layer switch keys six times to type ~/note2b. This is Linux. Linux users type things like that all the time.