![]() ![]() Tip: You can drag the mic icon out and replace it will something else.Tap, hold, and drag unwanted icons out of the toolbar and into the grid.Get Gboard to appear by opening any app and tapping a text bar.How to change what appears in the toolbar The toolbar customization feature in Gboard has since rolled out more widely, and you should have the function available. If you’re not content with what shows up in the toolbar by default, you’re now able to change that. On the other end, you’ll see a small grid icon, which holds all of Gboard’s tools in a nice little menu. The far right holds the mic icon that lets you dictate text by voice. That list usually consists of stickers, GIFs, clipboard, settings, and themes. That toolbar appears above the keyboard keys or number row, if that’s your preference.īefore customizing, the toolbar in Gboard will show several different features that we’ve come to know and love. ![]() Now, you can change that by adding additional tools to customize your Gboard toolbar.īack in February, Google started rolling out a previously announced feature for Gboard that lets you completely change what shows up in the toolbar. Or you could just print out the list of keyboard shortcuts and tape them to your monitor.Gboard has plenty of neat functions, with some being easier to find than others. I suppose if you want to learn to use keyboard shortcuts, but just can’t get them to stick in your noggin, the GBoard could be a helpful stepping stone. You still need to move your hand from your normal keyboard over to the GBoard, so the time savings of using keyboard shortcuts is partially nullified. Or, you know, you could just press the “C” key on your keyboard. You’ll need to move your hand over to your mouse and then move the mouse pointer over to the “Compose” link. If you don’t like the placement of the Compose button, you’re out of luck. There’s no ability to tweak the arrangement of the keys on the GBoard. Not shown above are the results for pressing Escape or Open/Close, which correspond to the actual Escape key, and the return key. Here’s the result of pressing each of the GBoard keys in a plain text editor: Take a look again at the GMail keyboard shortcuts, and then look at the photo above. Let me say this again: this is a keypad with buttons to do things that you can do using your normal keyboard. ![]() Enter the GBoard, the keyboard for GMail. Did you know that many of the Google services we’ve all come to know and love have keyboard shortcuts to make using only a keyboard more practical? There are keyboard shortcuts for Google Mail and Google Reader, but I suspect that the “average user” is going to have a hard time remembering these. Using a single input device is much, much more efficient (just watch an expert do anything in Vim or emacs sometime!). It seems that people don’t know how the TAB and RETURN keys work.Īll that moving back and forth between input devices is slow, and error prone. I cringe every time I see someone type in a username and password: type username using the keyboard, use the mouse to click into password field, type in password using the keyboard, and then use the mouse to click the “Submit” button. They each suck in their own way, but they’re even worse together. Keyboards and mice are horribly inefficient means for interacting with computers. I’m left wondering what problem this accessory solves. The back of the unit has an adjustable lever so you can change the angle of the keypad. It’s a USB keypad that has nineteen specially labeled keys for specific GMail actions: search, reply, reply all, star, archive, etc. ![]()
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