Acceleration based spacebar swiping

[KraXen72]

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Describe the feature request below
add a new checkbox "swipe acceleration" that takes into account acceleration of the swipe on spacebar.

• Currently, with a pretty high Slide Sensitivity (38), i can get a pretty good precision on spacebar swipes when i only want to swipe by one letter, but when i want to skip whole words by swiping quickly, i have to swipe the entire spacebar multiple times. I could lower the Slide Sensitivity, but then it becomes annoying to precisely move by one or two letters.
• With the new checkbox, swiping quickly would move by more letters, but swiping slowly will move by less - allows for fine-grained precision when needed, but also to quickly move the cursor by several words using only one swipe.

[LenzGr]

FWIW, I would find this helpful, too.

[alerque]

I also agree, I think. I've found the cursor motion a bit harder to get right in thumb-key (having come from MessagEase). I don't know exactly what heuristic ME used, but it was pretty reliable to move 1 character or 1 word. If this is the missing ingredient then I'm all for implementing it here.

[sslater11]

A work in progress 😄
Currently it's just a demo, spacebar is completely broken and I need to tidy up the code, then get this working with selection and deletion swipe gestures, and to create new settings to enable it.

If anyone knows anything about graphing quadratic equations, I'd love to have another pair of eyes see if they can tweak the formula.

EDIT/UPDATE:
The slide gesture sensitivity setting no longer works because it has been replaced with the acceleration.
I have this working with text selection and the backspace selection delete. It works really well. It is working with the deadzone that I've added to the spacebar and backspace key, so normal swipes are preserved.
Tomorrow I'll look to get it working without any deadzone, and make it so the keyboard layout designer can choose between a spacebar with or without normal swipes.

[KraXen72]

nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!