I think applying the flick-style input method to the languages of S and SE Asia would be even worse than Gboard, given that they have 12+ vowels. I’m definitely not a fan of the flickering of the Gboard, as referenced in the conference talk and defensive publication. To reiterate, I think the phoneme style keyboards for abugida scripts is the optimal style for these scripts. So anyone interested is free to try implementing.
The second idea is a higher level idea, saying that agglutinative languages should use infix/suffix morpheme suggestions in the autocomplete list.ĭefensive publications establish prior art that inherently protects future implementations, in open source or otherwise, because the prior art nullifies potential future patents, including by patent trolls.
The first idea is that languages that use abugida scripts should use their phonemes as the keys to make an efficient and intuitive keyboard. It describes two main ideas for improving virtual keyboards that I talked about previously. I just noticed that a month ago, my defensive publication was officially published.
