Oneiric-proposed: new version of Onboard with GI, gsettings,...
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onboard (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Oneiric |
Fix Released
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High
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Precise |
Fix Released
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Bug Description
Sorry for getting this release ready only this late. I hope that it will nevertheless make it into oneiric.
Here is the list of the principle changes taken from the NEWS file:
* 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)
A reason to grant the exception might be that it provides among others gobject introspect on and the use of gsettings. Moreover, it ships some new features that were requested by onscreen keyboard users by filing bugs. Finally, for users that are not able to click, it fixes the regression since the Unity desktop that was previously provided by the dwell applet: the fonctionality of the dwell applet is now available in Onboard.
As an onscreen keyboard user and part of the development team (I am not the coder however), I have been creating a new debian package for my personal use every few commits and the problems encountered during its usage were addressed.
I am going to attach a debian source package to this email with defaults that should suit oneiric.
Related branches
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- Feature Freeze exception request: new version with GI, gsettings,... + Oneiric-proposed: new version of Onboard with GI, gsettings,... |
This is a little late to go in to the release, but after discussion with Colin, we're ok with it going in as an SRU after suitable review. We'd like to pick this up right now, but if there is a regression we wouldn't have time to react.
Please submit this into -proposed, and get a couple of reviewers to signoff after testing it, and we'll let it in as an SRU. Yes this is outside the normal SRU criteria, but risk should be manageable.