These are the changes that went into the 0.99.0 release of Onboard. For a more detailed list of the changes, please have a look at the commits of the 0.99 branch.
* 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
