This is mobian (debian for mobile) running on a librem phone. Varnam installs fine but the keyboard is entirely different, it doesn't support word suggestions, once it does Varnam can be integrated to it as well.
@subins2000 https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-osk-stub / https://packages.debian.org/experimental/phosh-osk-stub does presage based completion and I've a hack to allow to play with uim for Japanese: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-osk-stub/-/merge_requests/34 - maybe give varnam a go too ?
@agx Varnam would be different in this aspect, it requires word suggestions. Here's how Varnam looks like in Indic Keyboard on Android.
It's more easier to use English -> malayalam/hindi/tamil etc. transliteration to type.
A basic word suggestions display + on-space-click-commit-primary-suggestion etc. is needed, similarly to how ibus works. Varnam has an ibus engine.
So this issue would be the relevant one https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard/-/issues/54
Thanks!
@subins2000 I don't understand. We do word suggestions in phosh-osk-stub (see video below). (I had filed that issue you link to 😃 ). What do you think is missing? I was able to integrate with UIM just fine too: See https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/011/424/006/original/cf3f50be82c07bea.mp4?1668181672
@agx Hi, I made this video to explain more, hopefully it's clear :)
@subins2000 thanks a lot for the video! I think we can do what you want if we plug a completion engine that uses varnam instead of the presarge, uim or fzf based ones. This is presarge based completer. With varnam it would show the results from varnam_transliterate instead.
