This release adds new layouts, and new types of layout, plus fixes a regular allotment of bugs, and improvs the internal design a whole lot.
Here are the changes that you might notice without digging into code.
Layouts:
- Arabic layout from Khaled Eldoheiri
- Swiss French from Jordi
- Bulgarian from Plamen Stoev
- Swiss German from Patrick Jörg
- Armenian from Norayr Chilingarian
- Wide French terminal from Arnaud Ferraris
- PIN layout
Improvements:
- Integration into GNOME translations
- A debug mode that starts the GTK inspector
- Better errors when can't start
- Better docs (thanks PhilProg)
Bug fixes:
- Unblurred icons
- Not showing on the lock screen for no reason
- Theme changes without restarting now
- Input hint can take effect without having to refocus the field
This reverts commit 5c1b28e4ed8b046a251609e5f7db4b4df9e710f5.
It has only been needed to move Rust structure across C bridges. That's unneeded with more integration.
This ensures that the new state machine is fed events, as well as that its results are applied.
The old ad-hoc system is removed.
There is one regression where the last layout will be used when the panel is brought up manually.
Handling visibility state ad-hoc has shortcomings in testability and locality, and this module attmepts to rectify that by creating an explicit state machine, along with a loop to drive it.
Actually applying state is not implemented here.
Calling popover.show() returns control to the main loop, but squeekboard structures are still borrowed meanwhile. That's dangerous and forbidden in Rust. Therefore, this forces the return from the stack and release of the borrows before the glib main loop is invoked again.
xkb layouts are translated fine by libgnome-desktop. If not
we should go fixing there since that makes keyboard layout
strings consistent with e.g. gnome-control-center.
There weren't any 'exotic' strings in the current translations
so what we get from libgnome-desktop should be just fine.
Handled via po. Remove now empty files. The match with resources.rs
shows that some of them weren't even used (e.g. fa-IR) showing why a
switch to po is useful (which allows to maintain us that outside of
code).
Single words are hard to translate in context, give some indication what
they do. They're automatically extracted into the pot file.
#. translators: This is a emmoji keyboard layout
#: data/popover.ui:6
msgid "Emoji"
msgstr "…"
#. translators: This is a terminal keyboard layout
#: data/popover.ui:12
msgid "Terminal"
msgstr "…"
This allows them to be translated via po so we don't have to maintain
the translation list by hand or care about empty translation files.
The only downside is that the "overlay layouts" in OVERLAY_NAMES need to
match the ones in the ui file but since a missing one is a clean crash
when selected there's little potential for subtle breackage. We could
even ensure consistency by comparing the two at run time but they change
only slowly this is not much of an issue (compared to how e.g. new
languages can be added now).
There's a lot of expectations to make Squeekboard merely a keyboard for the sake of desktop-like workflows, which would hinder the common use case of entering text. The new wording hopefully doesn't foster such a misunderstanding.
