squeekboard/NEWS.md

squeekboard 1.41.0

New layouts:

• Malayalam
• German (Bone)
• German (Neo 2)

New icons:

• zwsp (zero-width-space)
• zwj (zero-width-joiner)

squeekboard 1.39.0

New button-styles:

• change-view: Highlighted like special, but with a border at the bottom.
• character-group: Like change-view, but with less highlighting.
• placeholder: Less contrast to the background and does not visually change when pressed.
• subtle-highlight: For highlighting commonly used characters in accent-views, for example.

New layouts:

• Portuguese
• Slovenian
• Turkish (F-layout)
• Turkish (Q-layout)

Remade layout:

• Portuguese (Brazil): A view for accents has been added.

Changes:

• The new button-styles are used in the available layouts, where appropriate.
• The top rows of the terminal-layouts are a little taller.
• Squeekboard will choose the wide shape of layouts, for more displays in horizontal orientation.
• Highlighted buttons now show visual feedback too, when pressed.
• Many layouts have been adjusted, so that those change their form less when switching views.
• Various small issues have been fixed, to make layouts more consistent.

Development:

• Scaling-tests for many display-types have been added.

squeekboard 1.38.0

Changes:

• 25 wide shapes have been added, so that every available layout now has a wide shape
• "PgUp" and "PgDn" on the terminal-layouts have been relabeled to "Page ↑" and "Page ↓"
• The Spanish and French terminal-layouts now have translated key-names
• The Spanish terminal-layout has been updated with the additional keys that are already available on the US-terminal-layout.
• The wide and base shapes of the German layout had a different key-arrangement and the wide shape did not have a button to access additional characters; this has been fixed.

Development:

• Squeekboard's versioning now follows Phosh's versioning (for example: Squeekboard 1.38 was released in time for Phosh 0.38)
• The build-system has been simplified
  • A single Cargo.toml file is used, instead of assembling it from multiple parts
  • Newer dependencies are now used for building Squeekboard by default
• Squeekboard's main development-platform is now Debian Testing
• The layout-files have been cleaned up, so that those are easier to understand and edit

squeekboard 1.24.0

Changes:

• The emoji-layout has been replaced with a new one, which offers many more emojis to choose from.

squeekboard 1.23.0

New or updated translations:

• Belarusian
• Haitian Creole

New layouts:

• French Canadian (QWERTY + accented letters)
• German terminal-layout
• Spanish terminal-layout

Changes:

• Fixed Persian and Swiss layouts
• Fixed various small style-issues in many layouts
• Improved the US-terminal-layout

squeekboard 1.22.0 "Superposition"

New or updated translations:

• Basque

Changes:

• fixed panel sizing when scaling
• fixed panel sizing when rotating
• fixed Dvorak terminal layout

squeekboard 1.21.0 "Expected value"

New or updated translations:

• Hindi
• Czech
• German

New layouts:

• wide Swedish
• Hungarian

Changes:

• use a custom font for gr+polytonic, where the default is unreadable
• require newer Rust
• fixed panel sizing when rotating
• internal improvements.

squeekboard 1.20.0 "PID controller"

New translations:

• Greek
• Croatian

New layouts:

• US Dvorak terminal

Improvements:

• forcing the panel to hide now takes effect immediately
• Squeekboard icon will present itself when other applications need to show it