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Version 1.4.1
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* Add support for gsettings overrides
Version 1.4.0
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* Tablet-mode: (LP: #1366421)
- Add detection based on acpid reporting the SW_TABLET_MODE switch
- Add detection based on hotkey events from XInput
- Add detection by reading tablet-mode state from a few known sysfs paths
- Add option to the Auto-show page to auto-show Onboard only in tablet-mode
- Only run GlobalKeyListener when necessary
- Add tablet-mode settings to Preferences->Auto-show->Convertibles
* GNOME Shell:
- Add edge-drag gesture to show the keyboard in GNOME Shell
- Add option to gnome-shell-extension-prefs to disable edge-drag
- Enable auto-show only on first start (LP: #1650810)
- Fix setup.py to have distutils-extra not open extension dir as a file
- Stop the legacy icon panel from sliding in and out all the time
- Add license and copyright header to gschema.xml
- Fix broken string in prefs.js
- Fix copyright information in prefs.js
- Clean up prefs.js
- Remove debug output
* Auto-show:
- Refactor settings_auto_show_dialog.ui into new Auto-show preferences page
- Improve reliability in Unity Dash by reacting only to crucial events
- Add D-Bus property AutoShowPaused for convertible devices (LP: #1366421)
- Allow to block auto-show while external keyboards are connected
- Don't auto-hide while keys are still pressed.
* External keyboard detection:
- Detect keyboards with udev
- Add new preference subpage Preferences->Auto-show->External Keyboards
- Allow devices to be ignored; e.g. always connected keyboard
* onboard-autostart.desktop: (LP #1656779)
- Rename it to onboard-autostart.desktop.in
- Add _GenericName, _Comment and Icon keys
- Make it translatable
* Move listening for global key presses to new GlobalKeyListener.py file
* Have separate resize protection preference for floating icon and keyboard
* Add scale for label popup size to Preferences->Keyboard
* Switch position of "play sound" and "label popups" in Preferences-Keyboard
* Add MATE'S ContrastHighInverse to the map of known accessibility themes
* Replace deprecated GdkScreen.get_monitor_workarea()
* Delay visibility change via D-Bus until all keys are released (LP: #1648543)
* Indicate in log when Onboard has been started from the project directory
* Rename tools/socket.py to tools/xembed_socket.py to avoid name collision
* Reorganize AtspiStateTracker for saner handling of multiple accessibles
* Update licensing tool for gnome shell extension
* Explicitely clean up Applndicator status icon on exit
* Improve error handling when opening layouts files
* Work around firefox 50 urlbar losing focus and giving wrong caret position
* Work around broken transparency with Gtk 3.22 (Lp: #1636252)
* Work around byobu not reporting trailing spaces
* Fix -Wstrict-prototypes warning when building C++ extension lm
* Fix negative keyboard window size when screen says zero size (LP: #1633284)
* Fix geometry hints for minimum size calculation error on startup
* Fix startup failure on Arch Linux when libdbus-glib isn't installed
* Fix signed/unsigned comparison warnings when building in Arch Linux
* Make sure to hide label popups when the keyboard is hidden
* Ease adjustment of aspect ratio with more handles when docked and expanded
* Keep more distance when auto-positioning to the Dash search entry
* Enable docking by default in onboard-defaults.conf.example
* Update build instructions in README for Arch and Mageia
* Improve uninstall instructions in README
Version 1.3.0
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* Status icon:
- Move AppIndicator and GtkStatusIcon into separate backends
- Allow left-clicking AppIndicator in KDE Plasma
- Don't crash when Appindicator or Atspi are not available
- Fix fallback to GtkStatusIcon when Applndicator is not available
- Fix tooltip of status icon provider (LP: #1570318). Thanks Ubuntu-QC-1
* Word suggestions and auto-correction:
- Add Esperanto language model
- Elipsize very large words and fix them being invisible
- Fix Compact layout not showing the "More suggestions" arrows
- Improve auto-correction of URLs and filenames in long texts
* Virtkey:
- Improve search for available keysyms in X (LP:1562381)
- Move key mapping from X functions to Xkb
- Make Xkb-based mapping also work in Ubuntu-GNOME
- Add uinput backend to virtkey for initial support of non-X desktops
- Isolate X related parts of virtkey in preparation for non-X desktops
- Add initial Wayland support (blocker: gtk_window_set_accept_focus())
* D-Bus service:
- Add support for properties via python decorator
- Setup D-Bus activation to simplify showing on hotkey press (LP: #1607235)
- Update D-Bus usage examples in README
* Add fallback to default system font family for themes:
- High contrast themes get a font this way
- Fixes Ubuntu logo not appearing in yakkety
* Add aspect ratio limits when the keyboard is docked or expanded (LP:1586493)
* Add touch handle to adjust the docking aspect ratio limit
* Expand docked keyboard on landscape oriented screens by default
* Auto-detect default status-icon provider in major desktop environments
* Improve alignment of some labels in the Preferences dialog
* Fix former stock buttons in Preferences not being translated (LP: #1567301)
* Add small bitmap icons to prevent aliasing issues (LP: #1552484)
* Add more example keys to onboard-defaults.conf.example (LP: #1546654)
* Improve pep8 compliance of various source files
* Don't let the return key leave the screen for Small and Phone layouts
* Prevent setting new home position after accidental resize frame clicks
* Work around shadows becoming visible during resize when docked with sidebars
* Fix errors uncovered in Keyboard.py by flake8
* Fix unwanted key-repeats when typing into Gtk-3 applications (LP: #1562381)
* Fix keyboard sometimes starting up at unexpected positions on system start
* Fix build failure with gcc-6 that switched to C++14. Thanks Jeremy Bicha
* Fix warning when building with gcc versions before 6, i.e. C++98 by default
* Remove entries with default values from desktop files. Thanks Mike Gabriel
* Add 3.20 and 3.22 to shell-version field of GNOME extension. Thanks J. Bicha
* Care for compatibility with Ubuntu Precise (12.04)
* Update PPA link in README
Version 1.2.0
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* Word suggestions and auto-correction:
- Add arrows to page through more suggestions and option to turn them off
- Show capitalized suggestions even when SHIFT is off
- Don't place the remove suggestion dialog behind Onboard
- Improve behaviour of auto-punctuation
- Begin preparations for lazy word separator insertion
- Disable punctuation assistance when entering commands in the terminal
- Disable spelling suggestions for URLs and file names
- Disable auto-capitalization of URLs and file names
- Add Bulgarian system language model
* Layouts:
- Improve Phone layout for cyrillic languages
- Improve Small layout for cyrillic languages (LP: #1534210)
- Shorten key label "horiz\nconn" to Gdk provided "ho"
- If the layout contains a keysym error, show full hexcode of keysym
* License and copyright information: (LP: #1412647)
- Clarify the information
- Update the information
- Make it all available in the COPYING file
* Unit tests:
- Add test for modifier unlatching
- Fix regression when importing Gtk without first specifying the version
- Adapt to the removal of onboard-defaults.conf.nexus7
* Preferences dialog:
- Make Preferences->Keyboard->Advanced scrollable
- Add status-icon-provider setting to Preferences (LP: #1454405)
- Show sticky-key-release-on-hide-delay setting in Preferences
- Rename "User layouts" to "My layouts"
* Add initial GNOME Shell extension for Onboard
* Replace old documentation with initial documentation in mallard format
* Add man pages (thanks Mike Gabriel)
* Detect default prompt of fish interactive shell in DomainTerminal
* Add support for flake8
* Type SHIFT+key on right click for uppercase letters, etc.
* Add new auto-show repositioning method for reduced pointer travel
* Add command to the licensing tool for writing licensing headers to files
* Update tools/licensing list-committers to skip binary and unversioned files
* Disable click sound in space feature, but keep gsettings key (LP: #1529140)
* Remove copyright sign from service file to appease pbuilder
* Allow the letter_frequencies tool to take a filename of a language model
* Make builds on debian reproducible, thanks Mike Gabriel (LP: #1530519)
* Update and improve the description of a number of gsettings keys
* Don't auto-save language models while keys are being pressed
* Remove unnecessary special treatment of ALT in override redirect mode
* Remove fall-back to old virtkey API. Virtkey is part of Onboard now
* Improve PEP8 compliance of various python files
* Attempt to auto-show and keep Onboard visible in unity dash
* Correctly position the language menu also in wily
* Show rounded corners and transparency of the icon palette also in wily
* Return transparency effects of the keyboard in wily
* Don't invert the case of auto-typed suggestions when CAPS is enabled
* Improve auto-show logic in the presence of text popups
* Automatically insert a slash after the top level domain co
* Improve window movement with enabled decoration when dragging the titlebar
* Keep the keyboard active while moving by title bar (LP: #1461823)
* Stop synchronisation of modifiers when Alt is active
* Recognize a touch device with reception of a touch event
* Enhance cleaning command of source tree
* Trap the occasional X error BadDrawable causing Onboard to exit
* Fix LibreOffice Writer losing text color on suggestions before a space
* Fix Compiz wall plugin's viewport not always closing (LP: #1532254)
* Fix some labels not being displayed in uppercase on Caps-Lock (LP: #1513773)
* Fix extra space being inserted when replacing selection with suggestion
* Fix auto-hide not extending delay while typing on physical keyboard
* Fix D-Bus getting tripped up by zero bytes in hex label string
* Fix Onboard stretching across width of unity-greeter in xenial
* Fix start failure on xenial when D-Bus session is not available
* Fix warnings about missing gi.require_version with python3-gi 3.18
* Fix several depreciation warnings
* Fix touch input with event source GTK and multi-touch mode, thanks J Wiegman
* Fix touch events not being received in Kwin (LP:1470825)
* Fix spurious backtrace on suggestions when accessible becomes invalid
* Fix status icon size with lxpanel-indicator-applet-plugin (LP: #1467723)
* Fix re.split() FutureWarning for python 3.5
* Fix internat. character selection offset on high-dpi screen (LP: #1421840)
* Fix left click on GtkStatusIcon fallback not working (LP: #1421972)
* Fix stuck keys in keyboard popups with event source GTK
* Fix auto-inserting separator Ĩ instead of space when NumLock is enabled
* Fix initial Py_None not being dereferenced when copying OskDeviceEvents
* Fix traceback when showing keyboard popups in Precise
* Fix display of key popups for compiz and metacity in Precise
* Fix segfault in the osk extension for Precise
* Fix transparency effects on Precise
* Fix stack smashing error with GCC 4.6.3 on Precise
* Remove outdated files
* Update HACKING file
Version 1.1.0
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* Word suggestions:
- Add possibility to learn word sequences, but no new words
- Add removal of words from current user language model on long press
- Add removal of a word in current context only
- Add tool to extract letter frequencies from a given language model
- Use slash as word separator in the path component of URLs
- Improve word suggestions after a wrap to a second line in gnome-terminal
- Better handle interaction with the awesome bar's URL completion of firefox
- Fix synchronisation between libreoffice writer and text document
- Fix insertion of word separators consisting of more than one character
- Delete selected text before inserting suggestions into Gtk-3 widgets
- Fix memory leak in predict calls
- Improve robustness of language model loading by handling word counts <= 0
- Have the checkmodels tool check for valid n-gram frequency fields
- Fix and improve broken doctest for _get_word_to_spell_check()
- Remove "th" from the English system language models
- Increase the number of words in the German system language models
- Fix traceback when migrating user language model with LANG=C
- Always use "Other Languages" as name for submenu of languages menu
- Move second separator in language menu to correct position
* Auto-show and auto-hide:
- Add hiding of Onboard keyboard on physical key-press for XInput
- Add setting for the time to stay hidden after physical key-press
- Add possibility to turn off repositioning on auto-show (LP #1402212)
- Centralize auto-show code to make it available for future views
- Correctly register at-spi listeners on startup
- Correctly disconnect events on exit
- Fix auto-show on cursor movement in single-line text entries
* XEmbedding in unity-greeter and gnome-screensaver:
- Enable hide button in unity-greeter; needs restart until greeter assists
- Add a toggle to system defaults to enable the background image
- Read filename of background in greeter's shema in unity-greeter
- Ignore xembed-unity-greeter-offset-x on small screens
- Increase xembed aspect change range (LP: #1297695)
- Add the color of the background bar to system defaults
- Fix loading of desktop backgrounds with non-ascii filenames
- Fix black bars problem
- Fix background image not showing with python 3.2 on Precise
- Add debug command line option "--launched-by" to ease testing xembedding
- Add script to manually test the xembed behaviour
* Improvements when org.gnome.interface scaling-factor is > 1:
- Apply scaling to XImput events
- Also scale docking struts
- Switch more reliably when scaling factor changes
- Work around unscaled accessible extents (LP: #1325026)
- Fix incomplete rendering of keys (LP #1283491)
- Fix get_position() of all override redirect windows (LP #1283491)
- Improve display of blurry images
* Layouts:
- Update layout format to new version 3.2
- New key attribute "show_active" shifts hard-coded behavior to layouts
- Add nocycle variants to the sticky key behaviour attribute
- Add push-button behaviour for sticky keys
- Fix keys with the same id being ignored
- Fix images not being found for layouts given on command line
- Fix typo of the author's name in GPL header of the Whiteboard layouts
- Reorder keys in Grid layout for more efficient scanning for azerty maps
- Show 'm' key in Grid layout for azerty key maps (LP: #1293259)
- Fix opening of layouts folder when layouts folder does not exist
* Logging:
- Tweak and colorize log output in interactive terminals
- Add new logging levels "atspi", "event" and "all"
- Move all at-spi logging to log-level "atspi"
- Allow to specify a range of logging levels for the -d command line option
* Unit tests:
- Add unit tests for moving/resizing of keyboard and floating icon
- Add unit test for system theme tracking with high/low contrast gtk-themes
- Add unit test for preserving the numlock state after exit
- Add unit test for running in the live-CD environment
- Fix unit tests failures with python 3.2 on Precise
* Add support for multiple monitors to docking
* By default, automatically move docked keyboard to monitor with active window
* Add context menu to floating icon
* Add tool to install gsettings shema without building the debian package
* Add deletion of build files from source tree to some setup.py commands
* Add new snippets dialog for empty snippets on snippets button click
* Also open new snippets dialog on long press for snippet editing
* Synchronize Onboard with all externally activated modifiers (LP: #1331549)
* Reorganize output of the onboard --help switch
* Take new window manager name "GNOME-Shell" into account
* Don't auto-start Onboard in GNOME classic as it uses its own keyboard now
* Set opacity after realizing window for compatibility with Vivid
* Remove the restart requirement for the "Touch input" setting
* Close the language menu when the language button is pressed a second time
* Don't show keyboard on moving and resizing the floating icon
* Use xdg-open for layout folder; thanks J.Beekman (LP: #1322368,LP: #1389978)
* Remove useless notebook tab from the docking settings and auto-show dialog
* Add optional delay between automatic keystrokes (LP: #1391241)
* Extend resize protection to include window movement
* Fix CAPS behavior when set up as switcher for "input sources" (LP: #1313176)
* Don't activate the move button twice per press
* Don't hide dialogs behind keyboard when using force-to-top mode
* Improve handling of absolute paths containing space characters
* Correctly show the on/off state of auto-show in the Preferences dialog
* Fix Onboard start when it gets enabled in the system settings (LP: #1376764)
* Fix start when org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications is missing (LP: #1402558)
* Fix start when hint file was created for wrong user
* Fix start with non-unicode locales and with C locale
* Fix Onboard becoming unusable because of invisible warning dialogs
* Fix unresponsive keyboard with wacom driver (LP: #1297692)
* Fix display of About dialog when po file has empty msgids (LP: #1293829)
* Make sure to escape markup to prevent errors with translations
* Scale the default size of label popups with the window-scaling-factor
* Assume RGBA support exist without compositing only for unity-greeter
* Have key events from the XInput event source deliver a valid source_id
* Fix EventSource cleanup
* Prevent package build failures when running onboard-settings before build
* Enable gcc option -Wdeclaration-after-statement for building on Arch Linux
* Fix declarations after statement warnings when compiling osk in Precise
* Fix traceback and hang when using click buttons with python 3.2 on Precise
* Add information about our stable PPA to README
* Add build instructions for Ubuntu, Arch and Mageia 4 to README
* Perform some small visual tweaks
* Add missing GPL header to some files
* Fix some Gtk deprecation warnings; not all for compatibility with Precise
* Perform various code cleanups
* Include translations for vivid from the Ubuntu Translators as of 20150127
Version 1.0.0
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* Word suggestions enhancements:
- Every language id now has its own user language model
- Add a checkbox to the Preferences to show the language switch on layouts
- Add a checkbox to the Preferences to show the pause learning button
- Add Canadian English system language model
- Add Danish system language model
- Add various flavors of the Dutch system language model
- Add Gaelic system language model
- Add Greek system language model
- Add Irish system language model
- Add Luxembourgian system language model.
- Add Polish system language model
- Add Romanian system language model
- Add Swedish system language model
- Add Turkish system language model
- Update Brazilian system language model
- Improve makemodels script
- Add model_info tool
- Add checkmodels tool to diagnose language model loading errors
- Add tool to randomize sentences in corpora
- Add copy function to allow transfer between language models
- Add smart support for camel-case words (Thanks Michael Bauer)
- Make language switcher more user-friendly (Thanks Michael Bauer)
- Stop word correction when spell checker dictionary is not present
- Fix learning of text spans larger than 100 characters
- Fix word suggestions sometimes being unaware of modifier presses
- Fix all upper-case words not being suggested at sentence begin
- Fix wrong caret position in rename function of Nautilus
- Fix some character deletion on focus change after a word completion
- Fix bit rot in split_corpus tool
- Improve handling of the / and other non-word tokens
- Improve support for URLs and directories
- Don't learn passwords from URLs
- Show dialog on language model loading error (LP: #1278599)
* Layouts:
- Add support for polygonal keys instead of only rectangles (LP: #1259371)
- Make the Return key of the Compact and Full Keyboard layouts a polygon
- Don't write suggestions outside prediction area in Onboard
- Grid layout: add settings,move,hide,quit and click buttons (LP: #754391)
- Add Whiteboard and Whiteboard wide layouts (contributed by Johannes Almer)
- Add short and long description to the layouts
- Perform small visual improvements
* Change the design of the layout section in the Preferences
* Tweak themes lightly
* Click buttons:
- Add support for new mousetweaks branch (version >= 3.9)
- Fix CSClickMapper sometimes erroneously claiming to be active
* Add dependencies check to setup.py
* Add gsettings key to choose between Appindicator and GtkStatusIcon
* Add new D-Bus method ToggleVisible() for (LP: #1232107)
* Add input-event-source to the system defaults example file
* Add basic doctest for window manager detection
* Enhance the system defaults file with entries for the typing assistance
* Fix window manager detection
* Fix unregistering of events when auto-show is disabled
* Fix reading system defaults from XDG_CONFIG paths
* Fix quit button in popup layouts
* Fix back trace when pressing char keys
* Auto-release modifiers when hiding the keyboard (LP: #1277255)
* Allow startup without Atspi typelib
* Add fallback character for popup indicator in case it is not in the font
* Check for absolute paths before loading files (LP: #1249493, LP: #1249825)
* Make moving of keyboard more responsive
* Correct D-Bus section in README
* New layout order in the Preferences of Onboard
* Improve some comments and strings in the source code
* Remove unused changekbd.sh
* Some code cleanup
Version 0.99.0
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* Long press popup:
- Hide long press popup when keyboard gets hidden
- Add possibility to show arbitrary layouts in popups
- Add character alternatives for most latin based languages
* Add key-press feedback:
- Size of label popup stored in gsettings-key
- Also allow images in the touch feedback
- Don't show feedback popup when xembedded
* Add sound feedback:
- New dependency: libcanberra
- Add 'Play sound' option to the Preferences dialog
* Add word suggestions:
- Add tools to create language models (lm) from large corpora
- Learn from typed text by default
- Limit over-learning in the terminal with additional filters.
- Use UTF-8 encoding internally (cuts memory usage)
- Fall back to hard-coded country codes if there is no lm for current locale
- Add initial system language models for: de_AT, de_CH, de_DE, en_AU,
en_ES, en_GB, en_US, fr_fr, it_IT, pt_BR, pt_PT, ru_RU
- Optimize system language models for size/memory usage.
- Use case insensitive predictions most of the time
- Offer spelling suggestions based on the hunspell C-API
- Auto-add word separators
- Add word suggestion row to all layouts
- Make word suggestion also work when using the scanning mode
- Doctests available for English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and
Spanish
* Add auto-capitalization
- Off by default because very new
- Add corresponding option to the Preferences of Onboard
- Independent of word suggestions
* Add XInput as a new event source and make it the default: (LP: #905636)
- Fall back to GTK event handling if XInput 2.2 isn't available
- Allow switching between GTK and XInput events without restarting Onboard
- Listen only to the XInput client pointer and its slaves
- Make XInput target specific windows instead of root window
- Support Multi-touch
- Don't count scroll-wheel movement as button presses
- Grab pointer even if click is performed by different device than movement
- Fix pointer becoming unresponsive on wetab tablet (LP: #1095508)
* Docking:
- Fix returning to the undocked position when turning off docking
* Layouts:
- Add new layout called Phone
- Add new layout called Small
- Fix Euro sign not being typed in Phone and Small layouts (LP: #1164009)
- Fix key stroke width not being written to theme files
- Make layouts understand a new 'layout' tag for sub-layouts
- Make layouts understand a new 'compact' attribute for boxes
- New 'svg_id' attribute allows ids in the svg file different from key id
- New key attribute 'label_margin' to influence the size of the labels
- New attribute 'theme_id' for keys
- Allow multiple characters in char attribute of layouts
- Fall back to default layout on a layout loading error
- Allow blocking of auto-switch to layer0 for arbitrary sub-trees
- Perform various layout tweaks
- Move hide button to word suggestion line when visible
- Update layouts format versions to 3.1
* Remove support for python 2
* Integrate functionality of virtkey extension into Onboard; the separate
python-virtkey package is not necessary anymore
* Fix another problem with handling the no core keyboard case (LP: 526791)
* Fix setting the Super key label override in the Preferences dialog
* Make system defaults work also after a manual install (LP: #1210568)
* Prevent motion event congestion when using XInput (LP: #1210665)
* Base remapping of middle and right click on XInput (LP: #1191098)
* Add another click type switching method under XInput (LP: #1210575)
* Allow to wrap simulated clicks in left Alt presses (LP: #1212248)
* Support XDG Base Directory Specification (LP: #1074448)
* Don't create empty user directories until they are needed (LP: #1105843)
* Allow drag selection of keys (LP: #644210)
* Add HighContrast icon (LP: #1082243)
* Fix onboard sometimes not switching labels back to lower case (LP: #1207503)
* Ensure proper python thread state in gdk event filters (LP: #1189946)
* Properly set up signal handler in the osk python thread state (LP: #1195857)
* Fix segfault when activating drag click the first time without hover click
* Don't interrupt manual window movement with auto-show repositioning
* Do not support anymore outdated conversion to gsettings (LP: #1123789)
* Fix window resizing while the scanner is enabled
* Don't flash the icon palette when rotating the screen of the Nexus 7
* Terminate drag click on pointer stop instead of click to work around bug
* Move keyboard to current desktop with D-Bus Show() in OpenBox (LP: #1092166)
* Work around hang/endless loop when quickly switching themes
* Fix URL bar of Epiphany web browser not being detected by AT-SPI
* Various fixes to improve python2 compatibility
* Fix osk errors found by cpychecker
* Make more AT-SPI processing asynchronous
* Handle more uncaught AT-SPI exceptions
* Don't read much data from accessibles before we know them to be of interest
* Let ConfigObject be the interface of all gsettings delay and apply calls
* Improve appearance of the Preferences dialog
* Allow starting up without python(3)-dbus (runs with reduced functionality)
* Update system defaults example files
* Make themes work with more layers
* Improve themes and color schemes
* Add sdist to pkg-config debugging aid
* Remove Alt-Tab blocking on Nexus 7 (LP: #1082101)
* Drop gconf2 migration
* Update some labels and tooltips
* Some code cleanup
Version 0.99.0~alpha1~tr1190
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* Fix Onboard becoming empty when system font dpi changes
Version 0.99.0~alpha1~tr1188
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* Onboard requires now virtkey >= 0.63.0
* Add example file with system defaults for the nexus7
* Various changes to get acceptable speeds on the nexus7 (LP: #1070760)
* Add docking feature (LP: #405034)
* Add sliding feature for docking and auto-repositioning
* Add multitouch support
* Add a toggle to stop listening to touch events in case of many problems
* Add popup on long press for key variants like diacritics
* New option to choose popup vs repeat for keys with variants
* New gsettings key for the popup delay
* Make move, frame and touch handles work on the nexus7
* Perform simulated clicks on correct touch position
* Auto-release pointer grab after timeout in case nexus7 is unresponsive
* Fix xserver memory leaking
* Improve speed when typing and moving the pointer (LP: #1055448)
* Fix rendering being slowed by emboss effect on keycaps (LP: #890221)
* Fix for not being able to move/resize Onboard on touchscreens (LP: #959035)
* Have Onboard respect launcher icon size (LP: #1078554)
* Auto-show Onboard by clicking already selected text entries (LP: #1078602)
* Make default shortcut for language/layout work from Onboard (LP: #1078629)
* New design of the Preferences dialog with more options (LP: #1053496)
* Disable click buttons when mousetweaks is not installed
* Add D-Bus service to show and hide the keyboard (LP: 1032042)
* Don't export dbus service for embedded instances
* Fix keys with operators (+,-,*,/) on the number keypad of Onboard
* Set NumLock's default sticky behavior to LOCK_ONLY
* Keep state of NumLock across restarts
* New attribute in layout files for sticky key behaviour
* New layout tags key_template and keysym_rule defining keysym-specific labels
* New window tag for color schemes to define border of popups
* New layout tag for language specific overrides in the layouts
* Move common key definitions into template for import by layout files
* Sync modifier states of Onboard with changes by hardware keyboard or tools
* Fix keys not re-rendered when releasing latched modifiers (LP: #1069990)
* Fix failure to instantiate Config singleton with python 3.3 (LP: #1065480)
* Fix distutils-extra build with python3.3
* Send key strokes for all modifiers (LP: #1067797)
* Blacklist Ctrl-LAlt+Fn keys by default
* Add alternative key generation by at-spi2
* Show Onboard on top of full-screen windows (LP: #1035578, LP: #1035578)
* Don't auto-start Onboard in GNOME Shell when a11y key is set (LP: #879942)
* Try to improve struts handling for metacity and mutter
* Fix status icon showing in MATE, Xfce and others (LP: #1044918)
* Fix getpreferredencoding hack, by Matthias Klose
* Build for all python3 versions, by Matthias Klose
* Add work arounds for some problems with the search box of firefox
* Do not abort startup if dconf key migration fails
* Improve startup sequence to fix Onboard showing up sometime at position 0.0
* Hide preferences button if g-c-c isn't in PATH (LP: #1053194)
* Give --not-show-in less chance to cause D-Bus timeouts in GNOME Shell
* Also add stack traces to file logging
* Fix configuring of Direct Scan
* Fix vendor/product id lookup of input devices
* Fix input device listing in the Preferences dialog
* Make scanning work out of the box on the nexus7
* Fix opening SVG files when used in python2 mode
* Small changes to some themes
* Add new Nightshade theme
* Add keystroke width to the theme settings
* Highlight pressed keys longer for better visibility on slow computers
* More visual tweaks
* Several code cleanups
Version 0.98.0
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* Move gsettings path to /org/onboard (LP: #982699); thanks R. Ancell
* Various visual improvements:
- push down effect on keys
- keys now have shadows
- smaller touch handles
- tweak images used by click buttons and other keys
- smoother transparency transitions
* Detect window manager to care for its specificities
* Add command line option to override automatic environment detection
* Mark command line help as translatable
* Add middle click in hover click mode; requires mousetweaks >= 3.3.90
* Various auto-show fixes
* Stop endless loop of auto-show on top of unity dash
* Fix some show/hide problems
* Stop wiggling of launcher icons on show/hide of keyboard window
* Various python3 adaptions, trying to keep python2 compatibility
* Move to python3 needs virtkey version >= 0.61.0
* Switch all translated strings to unicode (LP: 933030)
* Make python3 the default
* Don't show disabled buttons when XEmbedding (LP: #1019593)
* Don't create the icon palette when XEmbedding
* Add new color scheme to follow the HighContrastInverse theme update
* Keep Onboard on top of full-screen windows in force-to-top mode (LP: #1035578)
* Fix keyboard and icon palette not always above dash
* Add lockdown key to disable all dwell-activation
* Adapt to WM_NAMEs of Unity version 6
* Write message listing dependencies when sdist fails
* Add tests to check translations for errors, uses python-nose
* Make Onboard more robust against translation errors
* Make icon palette dwellable
* Add dconf version detection, thanks Robert Ancell
* Fix Super key (LP: #900191)
* Make menu key pop up context menu
* Separate layout loading from the keyboard widget
* Improve exception handling for theme and color files
* Limit keyboard size when it doesn't fit on screen (LP: #991318)
* Trap various X BadWindow errors (LP: #1016980)
* Work around regression of configure event in quantal
* Remove wnck dependency as gtk3's window-state-event reports iconification
* Prevent zombie process when launching preferences (LP: #936332)
* Only appear in gnome-screen-saver if onboard was running (LP: #938302)
* Don't check for running Onboard if "Typing Assistant" is on (LP: #938302)
* Fix some problems when compositing is enabled
* Switch window property to type XA_CARDINAL for compiz
* Fix keyboard window not moving when the gsettings keys are changed
* Fix regression when starting in unity-greeter
* Suppress python error messages in unity-greeter
* Catch SIGTERM and make sure all keys are released when exiting (LP: #978430)
* Don't hide the keyboard when switching themes in unity-greeter
* Fix saving of keyboard window and icon palette after first start
* Fix theme not being remembered between launches
* Make active modifier keys visible in scanning mode
* Fix init of scanning mode with Xinput 2.2 and GTK 3.5.12-0ubuntu1
* Fix python3 encoding errors in non-Unicode locales
* Fix python3 encoding error when trying to personalize a layout
* Fix python3 backtrace on adding a new snippet
* Fix migration of gsettings values of icon palette
* Fix startup of Onboard for some tablet users
* Don't get resized by compiz grid plugin
* Fix saving of home-rect in GNOME Shell when decoration is active
* Fix keyboard window resizing when rotating screen in GNOME Shell
* Inform unity that this is an on-screen keyboard, cf LP: #739812
* Fix idle transparency kicking in while typing into firefox awesomebar
* Exit cleanly on Ctrl-c
* Fix typos in tooltips
* Some code and comments cleanup
Version 0.97.0
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* Add improved scanning feature to osk extension
- scanning works with all official layouts
- different scan modes are available
- support for 1, 2, 3 and 5 switches
- devices can be configured to be used exclusively for scanning
* Port osk extension to GTK3
* Add auto-show with auto-move feature; requires at-spi2 (LP: #443986)
- confirm activation of at-spi2 with a dialog
- automatically move Onboard when it covers the input focus
- no auto-move when the keyboard is manually shown
- logging of focused at-spi accessibles through 'onboard -ddebug'
* Hide and show Onboard with a middle click on the indicator icon
* Add new icons for appindicator matching Ambiance and Radiance themes
* Add lockdown options for kiosk mode (LP: #879944)
* Silently embed into gnome-screen-saver if no app did so (LP: #857813)
* Make Onboard aware of screen rotation (LP: 911821)
* Protect against accidental resize/move of Onboard's windows (LP: #893644)
* Add option to disable resize handles (LP: #930373)
* Allow resizing with all mouse buttons
* Show menu entry for Xubuntu/Xfce (LP: #833862)
* Extend force-to-top mode to the Icon Palette
* Allow /user/local/share/onboard as an alternative installation directory
* Support starting onboard-settings in cli with non default language
* Don't start more than one instance under normal usage
* Fix onboard-settings crash in get_selected_layout_filename (LP: #913484)
* Add double click and drag click also for non dwelling mode
* Adjust category of the onboard-settings.desktop file (LP: #833873)
* Add more modifier behaviors: cycle (default), dblclick, latch, lock
* Add option to always show on visible workspace (LP: #803875)
* Add Alan Bell's themes: Typist, ModelM
* Add HighContrast, HighContrastInverse and LowContrast themes
* Option to track GTK theme to have Onboard switch to matching theme
* Make the colors of the icon of the Icon Palette adapt to the theme
* Calculate corner radius of the Icon Palette based on it's size
* Let Onboard draw itself the icon of Icon Palette instead of loading it
* Make a newly created customized theme the active one
* Stop selecting the default theme when resetting or deleting a theme
* Remove overrides for font setting and key label from themes
* Add format information to schemas, themes and colors files
* Convert sticky-key-behavior and system-theme-associations to dicts
* Show touch handles when activating drag click in dwell mode
* Show touch handles on long press of the move button
* Save window geometry 5 seconds after it was changed (LP: #819971)
* Add option to keep aspect ratio of keyboard window
* Update and fix system defaults example file
* Give the AppIndicator an accessible description (LP: #891931)
* Try to protect against bad accessibles
* Fix backtrace and ignore menu positioning with the status icon fallback
* Add shortcuts to the Preferences dialog
* Allow canceling click buttons actions at any time before the click
* Limit system impact of click polling (LP: #928800)
* Don't let the move button leave the screen (LP: 885608)
* Ask window manager to remove the maximize function (LP: #859288)
* Fix Unity 2D fighting with Onboard for the top spot
* Fix starting of the Preferences of Onboard on the LiveCD (LP: #877592)
* Block opening of Preferences when running in the Display Manager
* Improve handling of gsettings events (LP: #877601)
* Don't let compiz grid plugin resize the Icon Palette (LP: 893644)
* New color scheme format to better support detailed color settings
* Rename key attributes. "hovered" -> "prelight" and "latched" -> "active"
* Fix middle and right click button for 0.95 legacy layouts
* Fix Icon Palette flashing when unity-greeter is killed
* Fix Icon Palette not restoring the correct position
* Don't fail to start on older versions of gtk3 (3.0.11 on Mandriva 2011)
* Fix missing super key label on distributions without the ubuntu logo
* Fix almost invisibly short feedback on keypress occuring on some notebooks
* Fix Onboard being invisible after unlocking the screen
* Fix transparency bug when rapidly toggling inactivity timer
* Work around transparency state loss due to bug 837456
* Fix intltool warnings about messages being hard to translate
* Rename layer buttons
* Remove outdated hint about option for modal dialogs in AT panel
* Remove unused images
* Fix black corner issue when auto-starting in unity (LP: #877604)
* No fade delay when hiding Onboard and transparency is not supported
* Don't set inactive transparency when a text field gets focus while typing
* Remove redundant hook check
* Improve hide/show by using libwnck (LP: #917386), new runtime dependency
* Fix broken hide button in metacity without compositing
* Prevent onboard from disappearing when jammed into the lower left corner
* Don't allow to open multiple new snippet dialogs in force-to-top mode
* Don't hide new snippet dialog behind keyboard window in force-to-top mode
* Remove all active grabs
* Fix hidden window appearing as ghost in Metacity (LP: #929513)
* Fix showing of Icon Palette of first try in Metacity
* Fix typo in message about turning on accessibility (LP: #929226)
* Fix several backtraces
* Cleanup gsettings schema
* Rename tool-tip to tooltip (LP: #912929)
* Improve and fix some tooltips and key names
* Don't show tooltips while moving the keyboard
* Code cleanup, typo fixing, gui and tooltip improvements, performance fixes
* Replace % operator by python 3 string formatting to avoid encoding errors
* Begin python3 (>=3.2) conversion
* Add Gerd to AUTHORS file and order the names alphabetically
Version 0.96.0
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* Uses gobject introspection (GTK3), (LP: #858988)
* Uses gsettings rather than gconf (LP: #801208)
* Show on new lock screen (LP: #857813)
* Make Caps Lock stick on single click, (LP: #68716)
* Use dh_python2 (LP: #788514)
* Make Caps Lock stick on single click (LP: #68716)
* Add a hide button (LP: #564040 , LP: #584119)
* Add options for transparency of the onscreen keyboard window (LP: #643204)
* Add option to use a window without decoration
* Add tooltips to some keys of Onboard
* Add option to force Onboard window to top (work around bug 739812)
* Add possibility to differentiate snippets with custom labels
* Add buttons to control the hover click eature provided by the system
* Enhance the layout creation with parts that are visible on all layer
* Reworked the layouts and renamed Classic Onboard layout to Compact layout
* Many other little fixes and adjustments (details in commits on launchpad)
Version 0.95.0
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* Add support for themes supporting gradients, color schemes, round
corners, fonts, font styles, ... (partially Alan Bells; LP: #713466)
* Themes available:
- Ambiance (LP: #768583, Alan Bells design for Ubuntu 11.04)
- Blackboard
- Classic Onboard
- Darkroom
- Droid
* Use the theme for color information; not anymore the layout file
* Add theming to cli parameters
* Add configuration file for distributions to control default appearance
* Add possibility to name each snippet button according to its content
* Some cosmetic improvements by Gerd Kohlberger
* Move user settings from .sok to .onboard directory
* Rename layout files according to convention <layout name>-<pane name>.svg
* Make capitalisation of the name of Onboard consistent (LP: #524297)
* Fix and improve the "Personalize current layout" fonctionality
* Improve handling of deleted and invalid layout filenames
* Bring the height of the scan layout in line with the other layouts
* Fix memory leak (LP: #732179)
* Fix the close function of the status icon (LP: #718458)
* Improve mouse button emulation by increasing click polling (LP: #731642)
* Fix loading of default layout (LP: #769104)
* Import community translations from launchpad on 21st June 2011)
* Replace the word "Settings" with "Preferences" already used in Onboard
* Fix some usage of the ellipsis symbol
* Reduce the number of layout updates
Version 0.94.0
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* Make onboard follow keyboard layout changes (LP: 526791, LP: 65626)
* Save onboard geometry on quit instead on configure-events (LP: #596248)
* Improve handling of missing dependency for the clicks (LP: #524148):
- Use soname instead of linker for libXi in X11.py
- Add dependency on libxi6 to break package build if necessary
- Get current version of soname for libx11 from environment
- Respect DISPLAY environment variable in KeyboardGTK.py
- Add debian/README.source with info about libxi6 and libx11
* Do not crash if icon of IconPalette is missing (LP: #538109)
* Fix Menu key, Delete key and Insert key
* Qualify the import of our X11 module
* Make strings in X11 module translatable
* Some cleanup by remove trailing spaces
Version 0.93.0
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* Add option to make onboard appear when unlocking the screen
* Add possibility to do a middle click/right click by doing a left click
* Fix for the translations (LP: #452897)
* Replace with-keyword for compatibility with python < 2.6 (LP: #460389)
* Do not launch settings dialog under GDM (LP: #440371)
* Minimize to IconPalette if running under GDM, instead of disappearing
* Fix capitalisation of the word GNOME (LP: #495526)
* Check against version of auto module and not against version of package
* Make it compatible to DistUtilsExtra.auto >= 2.10
* Adjust permissions and fix typo (LP: #461491)
* Fix long description in schemas file
* Fix keysym of Del key
* Fix taskbar icon visibility (LP: #456178)
Version 0.92.0
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New release including
- More complete i18n.
- Improved rendering of the labels on keys.
- The option to minimize to a floating icon.
- A couple of new keyboard layouts.
Version 0.91.2
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Bugfix release.
Version 0.91.1
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Typo fix release.
Version 0.91
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Release.