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Onboard platform neutral rewrite

Onboard 1.4 is the Onboard branch created for the release targeted at the Ubuntu Zesty (17.04) release.

These are the major changes from version 1.2.0 to version 1.3.0:

  * 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

This is the 1.2 Onboard series.

There is now also an initial gnome-shell-extension-onboard in the source of Onboard.

The is the series for the 1.1.x releases of Onboard.

This branch introduces among others polygonal keys, one user language model per language id, additional language models, the first user contributed layout, an improved layouts section in the Preferences dialog, various small improvements, bugfixes,...

Adapt Onboard to the nexus7 and introduce some new features.

This is the series for the Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) release.

This is the stable release of Onboard targeted to Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)

Series for the 0.96 branch.

This is the series corresponding to the 0.95.0 release that features the following main improvements:
- Addition of themes with support of gradients, color schemes, round corners, fonts, font styles, ...
- Addition of a configuration file for distributions to control default appearance
- Each snippet button can now be named according to its content
- Make capitalisation of the name of Onboard consistent
- Various bug fixes and smaller improvements (see NEWS file shipping with the source tarball for more details)

Series corresponding to the Ubuntu 10.10 release, also called Ubuntu maverick. Onboard now listens for changes to the layout of the system keyboard and adapts its own layout to it.

Series corresponding to the Ubuntu 10.04 release, also called Ubuntu lucid.