Changes:
- A system for latching and locking views
- Some crash fixes
- Locale-flavored terminals
- A way to add locale-flavored emoji and numbers layouts
- Making the code less annoying to work with in some places
- Fixed layout changes on newer GSettings
- Mod4 modifier
- Better session registration
- New layouts: Dvorak, Colemak wide, hebrew, wide Thai
User-visible changes:
- Fixed a crash related to making keyboard visible.
- Better fallback: when selecting a missing layout named "fr+foo", "fr" will be used instead.
- When enabling the keyboard manually, it will never be stuck in the numbers view.
- Thai layout
- US-Colemak layout
- Czech layouts
- Esperanto layout
- Bulgarian layout
- Improved Norwegian layout
That's a lot of new layouts!
Plus a bunch of stricter warnings, MIPS64el support, and reproducible building.
- Xwayland support
- Keys' press zone extends to the side edges of the widget
- Layout popover separates languages from special layouts
- Popover can open settings
- Keyboard is invisible when GNOME accessibility setting is off
- Layout tester checks for presence of Backspace and Return
- Adjusts the keyboard size better to tablet-sized displays
- Friulian keyboard layout
- Ukrainian layout
- Belgian layout
- Wide French layout
- Wide Belgian layout
- Wide terminal layout
- Improved tutorial
- Improved README
- Stricter compilation checks
- Minor fixes
This commit is a bit bigger than it could have: Meson changes could have gone in separately from CI and Debian.
This commit looks more complicated than it should reasonably be. Alas, Cargo is a piece of work, and it doesn't let honest people just choose different versions of dependencies, leading to a cascade of misery. Several things were tried to curb the disaster:
- Cargo [feature] supports choosing dependencies, but doesn't support specifying dependency versions
- Cargo has a cfg() syntax in sections for choosing dependencies by build options, but it explicitly doesn't support selecting on features…
- Cargo allows choosing different dependencies based on features, so perhaps dependencies with different versions could live in stub crates pulled in as needed? Nope! If a dependency doesn't exist in the repo (and that's the point here), Cargo throws up its hands.
This means Cargo.toml needs to be generated based on the build type. More misery:
- we lose the simplicity of just doing `cargo.sh` for simple housekeeping like deps updates. HACKING.md was updated to reflect that. Perhaps that's inevitable - build options need to be like this.
- Some flaky adjustments needed in `cargo.sh` because of an additional argument that can be mistaken for an argument to the exec in `cargo run`.
- Specifying a custom `Cargo.toml` means Cargo can no longer find any tests, examples, benchmarks, or binaries, because it searches relative to the directory of `Cargo.toml`, which is now the build dir. Extra care needed to not forget about them now.
As soon as Cargo allows anything better for managing deps versions, the above should be undone in its favor.
Good side is that a couple bugs went away:
- build flags not always making it to Cargo
- arm64 builds were optional while they shouldn't
- test layouts in unit tests are loaded from an explicit directory now
The Bullseye versions of dependencies are canonical now, Buster considered legacy.
- Preview support for "Control" and "Alt" modifiers in buttons, use field "modifiers: Control" inside a button
- Don't crash when gsettings has an empty list of settings
- Documentation rearrangement
Highlights:
- Fixed glib critical when switching layouts
- Fixed minor memory leaks when switching layouts
- Whenever the client supports it, text is sent as text instread of key presses
- New Polish language layout
- Fixed greek layout
- Better key locking
- Less leaks
- Tweaks in terminal layout
- Better emoji layout
- Landscape layout doesn't crash
- CSS font is actually taken into account
- Failed start due to dbus is now communicated
- Better log messages
- Fixed Enter in numbers layout
- More consistent terminal layout
- Proper font sizes in terminal layout
This release introduces some renderer improvements, including relating to speed.
Mire importantly, layout files have an incompatible change in format: bounds on the layout are replaced by margins. This removes the possibility that buttons don't fit in the layout and frees layout makers from having to calculate the size of the layout manually.
