The issue of having to long press instead of "gesturing" in the punctuation marks is that it takes significantly longer when you have to press and hold a key for 1 second each time you want to use it. And the fact that the 0 prevents me from adding my username to the dictionary is that I have to enter my username in lots of places when I want to log in somewhere. having to tap in all the letters instead of "gesturing" it takes more time and is a pain, considering I can add it to my swype dictionary just fine.
I haven't given up on shapewriter yet... I'm still using it as my default input method. I just find these aspects of the app to be a bit of an annoyance, since the idea behind a gesture-based keyboard is to be more efficient by using gestures. Having to break away from gesturing to long press gets in the way of the efficiency.
I haven't given up on shapewriter yet... I'm still using it as my default input method. I just find these aspects of the app to be a bit of an annoyance, since the idea behind a gesture-based keyboard is to be more efficient by using gestures. Having to break away from gesturing to long press gets in the way of the efficiency.