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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.