separate the toolbar from the word suggestion bar

[sajjad000]

Please separate the toolbar from the word suggestion bar so that each bar alone is the same as the SwiftKey keyboard To improve the user experience

SVID_20240413_213002_1.mp4

[ghost]

I think, having suggestion bar and toolbar separated will allow finer customization; for example, I don't use suggestions at all, so I would like to completely disable suggestion bar and disable toolbar by default (takes space) while having option to enable it via functional key "," by long-press when needed – same way like I activate clipboard when needed. However, this will also require to separate clipboard toolbar from standard toolbar, so clipboard toolbar would not be affected by toolbar setting.

[ccoVeille]

I think everyone needs are different, but the ability to choose if we want to see the suggestion toolbar and/or the icons toolbar would be commonly accepted by everyone. But then the settings will have to consider the order when multiple are displayed

[ghost]

For completness, I am including related issue #374 when toolbar / suggestions are useless for lock screen. I also noticed this when heliboard with numpad layout accidentally overlayed lock screen's keyboard – cannot imagine use-case for toolbar / suggestion bar in numpad layout.

Therefore, I think having these things separated and configurable on its own would not only make sorting out issues easier, but also user experience will improve, so it's win-win situation.

[Mahantor]

Please add a dual toolbar, and increase the size of the objects a bit

Feature.request.-.add.dual.toolbar.Issue.909.Helium314-HeliBoard.mp4

[Uranusek]

It looks the same as #345

[mkroehnert]

Since the microphone icon for voice input is currently only available in the toolbar which is always collapsed for me, this would improve usability for the voice input feature as well.
Or, having a dedicated microphone icon in the default layout.

[o-data]

Please add a dual toolbar, and increase the size of the objects a bit
Feature.request.-.add.dual.toolbar.Issue.909.Helium314-HeliBoard.mp4

I really like the FlorisBoard "Try your setup" function. It very annoying testing setting and setup at the moment. Is there a # for this feature request?

[Uranusek]

@mkroehnert I think you could pin this button to the suggestion bar. You do this in the toolbar settings.

@o-data Yep #507

[mkroehnert]

@Uranusek thank you soo much for that hint.
I wasn't aware of this and solves the issue perfectly (too many options I guess :-D)

[khlsvr]

For what it's worth, I'll explain one example use-case, my use-case

I basically want to use 4 buttons from the toolbar often enough, that it is irritating and slow having to manually switch from suggestions bar to toolbar every time I want to use them. Well for now I have pinned 2 of them (clipboard and stt) to suggestion bar, but I still would want "left" and "right" buttons visible for quick cursor movements. Pinning them aswell would make the suggestions bar on the other hand way too small.