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Originally Posted by notrock
I have never used the term 'epic fail' before. At times I've also frowned at my monitor when I see it being used. So here goes
TouchPal 4 = epic fail
I felt lame just typing it. But I'm glad its off my chest.
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ROTFL, I hate that term myself but it certainly applies here.
I suppose if you had never tried TP before, you might think this version was not too bad but I can't even imagine any long time TP user liking the changes.
Changing the format of the KB is one thing, some people will love the change & others will hate it (that's how it is with any change). What really has me scratching my head is, they eliminated options/features that people use all the time & there seems to be no way to re-enable them.
When I first installed 4.0 & was trying it out, I immediately knew something was different that slowed me down, but couldn't put my finger on the change right away.
I finally realized what was going on when I A/B'ed it side by side with a spare TP I own that still had TP 3.5 installed. That was when I realized the "
show word candidate inline" option was not working in 4.0. This is one of the features I always liked about 3.5. Some other KB's do this also (Resco & FingerKB also do this for instance) & I will never use a KB that does not have this feature.
I figured it had to be turned off by default in 4.0 since it always worked well in 3.5 & spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to turn it on. I finally realized that the option has been eliminated.
Why on earth they would totally eliminate a feature that was working perfectly is beyond me, but that change alone would force me back to 3.5 if nothing else did (they made a bunch of other changes also & I don't like
ANY of them)
I guess it works better in landscape now, but I wouldn't know as TP works so well in portrait mode there is no reason to ever use landscape.
~John