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I usually play on my Android phone, and the keyboard pops up with qwerty, not numbers, requiring an extra keystroke every time.
I'd love to be able to use 'qwerty' mapped to 123456 positions.
it's a little or unorthodox, but would improve the power user experience.
Jul 23 · 6 weeks ago
🐐 satch [👑] · Jul 23 at 14:56:
Farkle poweruser 💪
🕹️ skyjake [👑...] · Jul 23 at 15:31:
I had the same thought (using QWEASD for the selection). I wonder if the keyboard autocorrect/spellchecker would interfere with it, though.
In html, you can have a field being 'number' field and then your number keyboard shows up instead of the normal keyboard when you touch it in mobile. I am not sure gemini is equiped with a 'type' of input?
🕹️ skyjake [👑...] · Jul 23 at 16:02:
@daruma Gemini has no mechanism for specifying what kind of input is expected, except for the human-readable prompt.
However, a client could provide a configuration setting for choosing a specialized keyboard for a given URL, for manually switching virtual keyboards.
🍀 gritty [mod] · Jul 23 at 16:41:
this may be doable. a simple translation upon input could be an "easy" fix
🚀 stack [OP] · Jul 23 at 16:45:
qweasd makes more sense spacially, but 'a' is already in use...
🍀 gritty [mod] · Jul 23 at 16:50:
That's fair, but qwerty is already mapped to the right numbers on (most?) android phones. I'll think on it. the earliest I can work on anything would be Friday.
🐐 satch [👑] · Jul 23 at 18:00:
As I am silly enough to use a Dvorak keyboard on my phone, this won’t be of much use to me…