Stretched display mode

[Evengard]

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Hello! There is 3 position modes: centered, left or right. I'm coming from MessagEase, and I'm actually using the "stretched" mode. Is it possible to implement it here as well?

Thanks!

[asdkant]

What would "stretched" mode be?

[Evengard]

That's how it is in the rival MessagEase

[dessalines]

Dupe of #399

[Evengard]

That's unfortunate. I'm really used to this stretched layout, and I think a lot of people too... Is there any reasoning behind WHY not planned to do a setting to make them not perfectly square?

[dessalines]

Fluid layouts are more complicated (which keys are allowed to stretch and which aren't, where do they stretch?), or if you wanted to add h/w ratios for each key, it'd be much more complicated. If you do a PR for this tho I wouldn't be opposed, but it'd be a lot of work.

[Evengard]

I am actually considering working on some PRs, so I want just to make sure we're on the same page.

In MessagEase in stretched mode actually all keys are stretched uniformely, without any regard to which key it is. I considered taking the same approach for that setting here. Do you think it is acceptable, or you have something different in mind?

[dessalines]

Sure, that'd be fine. A boolean default off for fill_width

[Kommynct]

It should also disable the button to move the keyboard to center/left/right if this is enabled.

[Evengard]

Well that's debatable. I was actually thinking more along the lines of actually making it one of the settings (left, right, centered, stretched [add]). So that button would cycle through 4 of them instead of 3 current.

[Zwyx]

Would also be super keen to have a stretch mode 👍 (Or the ability to change the keys' ratio to have them rectangular.)

[Zwyx]

I was interested in tinkering with the code, but didn't mention it here because I wasn't sure what would I be able to do (I never used Kotlin before and my experience with Android dev is limited).

Turns out, the code base is very easy to understand 🙂

So I've got something working:

I made a draft PR here to discuss the solution.

[dessalines]

Closed by the above PR