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Version 1.4.1
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  * Add support for gsettings overrides

Version 1.4.0
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  * Tablet-mode: (LP: #1366421)
    - Add detection based on acpid reporting the SW_TABLET_MODE switch
    - Add detection based on hotkey events from XInput
    - Add detection by reading tablet-mode state from a few known sysfs paths
    - Add option to the Auto-show page to auto-show Onboard only in tablet-mode
    - Only run GlobalKeyListener when necessary
    - Add tablet-mode settings to Preferences->Auto-show->Convertibles
  * GNOME Shell:
    - Add edge-drag gesture to show the keyboard in GNOME Shell
    - Add option to gnome-shell-extension-prefs to disable edge-drag
    - Enable auto-show only on first start (LP: #1650810)
    - Fix setup.py to have distutils-extra not open extension dir as a file
    - Stop the legacy icon panel from sliding in and out all the time
    - Add license and copyright header to gschema.xml
    - Fix broken string in prefs.js
    - Fix copyright information in prefs.js
    - Clean up prefs.js
    - Remove debug output
  * Auto-show:
    - Refactor settings_auto_show_dialog.ui into new Auto-show preferences page
    - Improve reliability in Unity Dash by reacting only to crucial events
    - Add D-Bus property AutoShowPaused for convertible devices (LP: #1366421)
    - Allow to block auto-show while external keyboards are connected
    - Don't auto-hide while keys are still pressed.
  * External keyboard detection:
    - Detect keyboards with udev
    - Add new preference subpage Preferences->Auto-show->External Keyboards
    - Allow devices to be ignored; e.g. always connected keyboard
  * onboard-autostart.desktop: (LP #1656779)
    - Rename it to onboard-autostart.desktop.in
    - Add _GenericName, _Comment and Icon keys
    - Make it translatable
  * Move listening for global key presses to new GlobalKeyListener.py file
  * Have separate resize protection preference for floating icon and keyboard
  * Add scale for label popup size to Preferences->Keyboard
  * Switch position of "play sound" and "label popups" in Preferences-Keyboard
  * Add MATE'S ContrastHighInverse to the map of known accessibility themes
  * Replace deprecated GdkScreen.get_monitor_workarea()
  * Delay visibility change via D-Bus until all keys are released (LP: #1648543)
  * Indicate in log when Onboard has been started from the project directory
  * Rename tools/socket.py to tools/xembed_socket.py to avoid name collision
  * Reorganize AtspiStateTracker for saner handling of multiple accessibles
  * Update licensing tool for gnome shell extension
  * Explicitely clean up Applndicator status icon on exit
  * Improve error handling when opening layouts files
  * Work around firefox 50 urlbar losing focus and giving wrong caret position
  * Work around broken transparency with Gtk 3.22 (Lp: #1636252)
  * Work around byobu not reporting trailing spaces
  * Fix -Wstrict-prototypes warning when building C++ extension lm
  * Fix negative keyboard window size when screen says zero size (LP: #1633284)
  * Fix geometry hints for minimum size calculation error on startup
  * Fix startup failure on Arch Linux when libdbus-glib isn't installed
  * Fix signed/unsigned comparison warnings when building in Arch Linux
  * Make sure to hide label popups when the keyboard is hidden
  * Ease adjustment of aspect ratio with more handles when docked and expanded
  * Keep more distance when auto-positioning to the Dash search entry
  * Enable docking by default in onboard-defaults.conf.example
  * Update build instructions in README for Arch and Mageia
  * Improve uninstall instructions in README

Version 1.3.0
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  * 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

Version 1.2.0
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  * Word suggestions and auto-correction:
    - Add arrows to page through more suggestions and option to turn them off
    - Show capitalized suggestions even when SHIFT is off
    - Don't place the remove suggestion dialog behind Onboard
    - Improve behaviour of auto-punctuation
    - Begin preparations for lazy word separator insertion
    - Disable punctuation assistance when entering commands in the terminal
    - Disable spelling suggestions for URLs and file names
    - Disable auto-capitalization of URLs and file names
    - Add Bulgarian system language model
  * Layouts:
    - Improve Phone layout for cyrillic languages
    - Improve Small layout for cyrillic languages (LP: #1534210)
    - Shorten key label "horiz\nconn" to Gdk provided "ho"
    - If the layout contains a keysym error, show full hexcode of keysym
  * License and copyright information: (LP: #1412647)
    - Clarify the information
    - Update the information
    - Make it all available in the COPYING file
  * Unit tests:
    - Add test for modifier unlatching
    - Fix regression when importing Gtk without first specifying the version
    - Adapt to the removal of onboard-defaults.conf.nexus7
  * Preferences dialog:
    - Make Preferences->Keyboard->Advanced scrollable
    - Add status-icon-provider setting to Preferences (LP: #1454405)
    - Show sticky-key-release-on-hide-delay setting in Preferences
    - Rename "User layouts" to "My layouts"
  * Add initial GNOME Shell extension for Onboard
  * Replace old documentation with initial documentation in mallard format
  * Add man pages (thanks Mike Gabriel)
  * Detect default prompt of fish interactive shell in DomainTerminal
  * Add support for flake8
  * Type SHIFT+key on right click for uppercase letters, etc.
  * Add new auto-show repositioning method for reduced pointer travel
  * Add command to the licensing tool for writing licensing headers to files
  * Update tools/licensing list-committers to skip binary and unversioned files
  * Disable click sound in space feature, but keep gsettings key (LP: #1529140)
  * Remove copyright sign from service file to appease pbuilder
  * Allow the letter_frequencies tool to take a filename of a language model
  * Make builds on debian reproducible, thanks Mike Gabriel (LP: #1530519)
  * Update and improve the description of a number of gsettings keys
  * Don't auto-save language models while keys are being pressed
  * Remove unnecessary special treatment of ALT in override redirect mode
  * Remove fall-back to old virtkey API. Virtkey is part of Onboard now
  * Improve PEP8 compliance of various python files
  * Attempt to auto-show and keep Onboard visible in unity dash
  * Correctly position the language menu also in wily
  * Show rounded corners and transparency of the icon palette also in wily
  * Return transparency effects of the keyboard in wily
  * Don't invert the case of auto-typed suggestions when CAPS is enabled
  * Improve auto-show logic in the presence of text popups
  * Automatically insert a slash after the top level domain co
  * Improve window movement with enabled decoration when dragging the titlebar
  * Keep the keyboard active while moving by title bar (LP: #1461823)
  * Stop synchronisation of modifiers when Alt is active
  * Recognize a touch device with reception of a touch event
  * Enhance cleaning command of source tree
  * Trap the occasional X error BadDrawable causing Onboard to exit
  * Fix LibreOffice Writer losing text color on suggestions before a space
  * Fix Compiz wall plugin's viewport not always closing (LP: #1532254)
  * Fix some labels not being displayed in uppercase on Caps-Lock (LP: #1513773)
  * Fix extra space being inserted when replacing selection with suggestion
  * Fix auto-hide not extending delay while typing on physical keyboard
  * Fix D-Bus getting tripped up by zero bytes in hex label string
  * Fix Onboard stretching across width of unity-greeter in xenial
  * Fix start failure on xenial when D-Bus session is not available
  * Fix warnings about missing gi.require_version with python3-gi 3.18
  * Fix several depreciation warnings
  * Fix touch input with event source GTK and multi-touch mode, thanks J Wiegman
  * Fix touch events not being received in Kwin (LP:1470825)
  * Fix spurious backtrace on suggestions when accessible becomes invalid
  * Fix status icon size with lxpanel-indicator-applet-plugin (LP: #1467723)
  * Fix re.split() FutureWarning for python 3.5
  * Fix internat. character selection offset on high-dpi screen (LP: #1421840)
  * Fix left click on GtkStatusIcon fallback not working (LP: #1421972)
  * Fix stuck keys in keyboard popups with event source GTK
  * Fix auto-inserting separator Ĩ instead of space when NumLock is enabled
  * Fix initial Py_None not being dereferenced when copying OskDeviceEvents
  * Fix traceback when showing keyboard popups in Precise
  * Fix display of key popups for compiz and metacity in Precise
  * Fix segfault in the osk extension for Precise
  * Fix transparency effects on Precise
  * Fix stack smashing error with GCC 4.6.3 on Precise
  * Remove outdated files
  * Update HACKING file

Version 1.1.0
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  * Word suggestions:
    - Add possibility to learn word sequences, but no new words
    - Add removal of words from current user language model on long press
    - Add removal of a word in current context only
    - Add tool to extract letter frequencies from a given language model
    - Use slash as word separator in the path component of URLs
    - Improve word suggestions after a wrap to a second line in gnome-terminal
    - Better handle interaction with the awesome bar's URL completion of firefox
    - Fix synchronisation between libreoffice writer and text document
    - Fix insertion of word separators consisting of more than one character
    - Delete selected text before inserting suggestions into Gtk-3 widgets
    - Fix memory leak in predict calls
    - Improve robustness of language model loading by handling word counts <= 0
    - Have the checkmodels tool check for valid n-gram frequency fields
    - Fix and improve broken doctest for _get_word_to_spell_check()
    - Remove "th" from the English system language models
    - Increase the number of words in the German system language models
    - Fix traceback when migrating user language model with LANG=C
    - Always use "Other Languages" as name for submenu of languages menu
    - Move second separator in language menu to correct position
  * Auto-show and auto-hide:
    - Add hiding of Onboard keyboard on physical key-press for XInput
    - Add setting for the time to stay hidden after physical key-press
    - Add possibility to turn off repositioning on auto-show (LP #1402212)
    - Centralize auto-show code to make it available for future views
    - Correctly register at-spi listeners on startup
    - Correctly disconnect events on exit
    - Fix auto-show on cursor movement in single-line text entries
  * XEmbedding in unity-greeter and gnome-screensaver:
    - Enable hide button in unity-greeter; needs restart until greeter assists
    - Add a toggle to system defaults to enable the background image
    - Read filename of background in greeter's shema in unity-greeter
    - Ignore xembed-unity-greeter-offset-x on small screens
    - Increase xembed aspect change range (LP: #1297695)
    - Add the color of the background bar to system defaults
    - Fix loading of desktop backgrounds with non-ascii filenames
    - Fix black bars problem
    - Fix background image not showing with python 3.2 on Precise
    - Add debug command line option "--launched-by" to ease testing xembedding
    - Add script to manually test the xembed behaviour
  * Improvements when org.gnome.interface scaling-factor is > 1:
    - Apply scaling to XImput events
    - Also scale docking struts
    - Switch more reliably when scaling factor changes
    - Work around unscaled accessible extents (LP: #1325026)
    - Fix incomplete rendering of keys (LP #1283491)
    - Fix get_position() of all override redirect windows (LP #1283491)
    - Improve display of blurry images
  * Layouts:
    - Update layout format to new version 3.2
    - New key attribute "show_active" shifts hard-coded behavior to layouts
    - Add nocycle variants to the sticky key behaviour attribute
    - Add push-button behaviour for sticky keys
    - Fix keys with the same id being ignored
    - Fix images not being found for layouts given on command line
    - Fix typo of the author's name in GPL header of the Whiteboard layouts
    - Reorder keys in Grid layout for more efficient scanning for azerty maps
    - Show 'm' key in Grid layout for azerty key maps (LP: #1293259)
    - Fix opening of layouts folder when layouts folder does not exist
  * Logging:
    - Tweak and colorize log output in interactive terminals
    - Add new logging levels "atspi", "event" and "all"
    - Move all at-spi logging to log-level "atspi"
    - Allow to specify a range of logging levels for the -d command line option
  * Unit tests:
    - Add unit tests for moving/resizing of keyboard and floating icon
    - Add unit test for system theme tracking with high/low contrast gtk-themes
    - Add unit test for preserving the numlock state after exit
    - Add unit test for running in the live-CD environment
    - Fix unit tests failures with python 3.2 on Precise
  * Add support for multiple monitors to docking
  * By default, automatically move docked keyboard to monitor with active window
  * Add context menu to floating icon
  * Add tool to install gsettings shema without building the debian package
  * Add deletion of build files from source tree to some setup.py commands
  * Add new snippets dialog for empty snippets on snippets button click
  * Also open new snippets dialog on long press for snippet editing
  * Synchronize Onboard with all externally activated modifiers (LP: #1331549)
  * Reorganize output of the onboard --help switch
  * Take new window manager name "GNOME-Shell" into account
  * Don't auto-start Onboard in GNOME classic as it uses its own keyboard now
  * Set opacity after realizing window for compatibility with Vivid
  * Remove the restart requirement for the "Touch input" setting
  * Close the language menu when the language button is pressed a second time
  * Don't show keyboard on moving and resizing the floating icon
  * Use xdg-open for layout folder; thanks J.Beekman (LP: #1322368,LP: #1389978)
  * Remove useless notebook tab from the docking settings and auto-show dialog
  * Add optional delay between automatic keystrokes  (LP: #1391241)
  * Extend resize protection to include window movement
  * Fix CAPS behavior when set up as switcher for "input sources" (LP: #1313176)
  * Don't activate the move button twice per press
  * Don't hide dialogs behind keyboard when using force-to-top mode
  * Improve handling of absolute paths containing space characters
  * Correctly show the on/off state of auto-show in the Preferences dialog
  * Fix Onboard start when it gets enabled in the system settings (LP: #1376764)
  * Fix start when org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications is missing (LP: #1402558)
  * Fix start when hint file was created for wrong user
  * Fix start with non-unicode locales and with C locale
  * Fix Onboard becoming unusable because of invisible warning dialogs
  * Fix unresponsive keyboard with wacom driver (LP: #1297692)
  * Fix display of About dialog when po file has empty msgids (LP: #1293829)
  * Make sure to escape markup to prevent errors with translations
  * Scale the default size of label popups with the window-scaling-factor
  * Assume RGBA support exist without compositing only for unity-greeter
  * Have key events from the XInput event source deliver a valid source_id
  * Fix EventSource cleanup
  * Prevent package build failures when running onboard-settings before build
  * Enable gcc option -Wdeclaration-after-statement for building on Arch Linux
  * Fix declarations after statement warnings when compiling osk in Precise
  * Fix traceback and hang when using click buttons with python 3.2 on Precise
  * Add information about our stable PPA to README
  * Add build instructions for Ubuntu, Arch and Mageia 4 to README
  * Perform some small visual tweaks
  * Add missing GPL header to some files
  * Fix some Gtk deprecation warnings; not all for compatibility with Precise
  * Perform various code cleanups
  * Include translations for vivid from the Ubuntu Translators as of 20150127

Version 1.0.0
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  * Word suggestions enhancements:
    - Every language id now has its own user language model
    - Add a checkbox to the Preferences to show the language switch on layouts
    - Add a checkbox to the Preferences to show the pause learning button
    - Add Canadian English system language model
    - Add Danish system language model
    - Add various flavors of the Dutch system language model
    - Add Gaelic system language model
    - Add Greek system language model
    - Add Irish system language model
    - Add Luxembourgian system language model.
    - Add Polish system language model
    - Add Romanian system language model
    - Add Swedish system language model
    - Add Turkish system language model
    - Update Brazilian system language model
    - Improve makemodels script
    - Add model_info tool
    - Add checkmodels tool to diagnose language model loading errors
    - Add tool to randomize sentences in corpora
    - Add copy function to allow transfer between language models
    - Add smart support for camel-case words (Thanks Michael Bauer)
    - Make language switcher more user-friendly (Thanks Michael Bauer)
    - Stop word correction when spell checker dictionary is not present
    - Fix learning of text spans larger than 100 characters
    - Fix word suggestions sometimes being unaware of modifier presses
    - Fix all upper-case words not being suggested at sentence begin
    - Fix wrong caret position in rename function of Nautilus
    - Fix some character deletion on focus change after a word completion
    - Fix bit rot in split_corpus tool
    - Improve handling of the / and other non-word tokens
    - Improve support for URLs and directories
    - Don't learn passwords from URLs
    - Show dialog on language model loading error (LP: #1278599)
  * Layouts:
    - Add support for polygonal keys instead of only rectangles (LP: #1259371)
    - Make the Return key of the Compact and Full Keyboard layouts a polygon
    - Don't write suggestions outside prediction area in Onboard
    - Grid layout: add settings,move,hide,quit and click buttons (LP: #754391)
    - Add Whiteboard and Whiteboard wide layouts (contributed by Johannes Almer)
    - Add short and long description to the layouts
    - Perform small visual improvements
  * Change the design of the layout section in the Preferences
  * Tweak themes lightly
  * Click buttons:
    - Add support for new mousetweaks branch (version >= 3.9)
    - Fix CSClickMapper sometimes erroneously claiming to be active
  * Add dependencies check to setup.py
  * Add gsettings key to choose between Appindicator and GtkStatusIcon
  * Add new D-Bus method ToggleVisible() for (LP: #1232107)
  * Add input-event-source to the system defaults example file
  * Add basic doctest for window manager detection
  * Enhance the system defaults file with entries for the typing assistance
  * Fix window manager detection
  * Fix unregistering of events when auto-show is disabled
  * Fix reading system defaults from XDG_CONFIG paths
  * Fix quit button in popup layouts
  * Fix back trace when pressing char keys
  * Auto-release modifiers when hiding the keyboard (LP: #1277255)
  * Allow startup without Atspi typelib
  * Add fallback character for popup indicator in case it is not in the font
  * Check for absolute paths before loading files (LP: #1249493, LP: #1249825)
  * Make moving of keyboard more responsive
  * Correct D-Bus section in README
  * New layout order in the Preferences of Onboard
  * Improve some comments and strings in the source code
  * Remove unused changekbd.sh
  * Some code cleanup

Version 0.99.0
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  * Long press popup:
    - Hide long press popup when keyboard gets hidden
    - Add possibility to show arbitrary layouts in popups
    - Add character alternatives for most latin based languages
  * Add key-press feedback:
    - Size of label popup stored in gsettings-key
    - Also allow images in the touch feedback
    - Don't show feedback popup when xembedded
  * Add sound feedback:
    - New dependency: libcanberra
    - Add 'Play sound' option to the Preferences dialog
  * Add word suggestions:
    - Add tools to create language models (lm) from large corpora
    - Learn from typed text by default
    - Limit over-learning in the terminal with additional filters.
    - Use UTF-8 encoding internally (cuts memory usage)
    - Fall back to hard-coded country codes if there is no lm for current locale
    - Add initial system language models for: de_AT, de_CH, de_DE, en_AU,
      en_ES, en_GB, en_US, fr_fr, it_IT, pt_BR, pt_PT, ru_RU
    - Optimize system language models for size/memory usage.
    - Use case insensitive predictions most of the time
    - Offer spelling suggestions based on the hunspell C-API
    - Auto-add word separators
    - Add word suggestion row to all layouts
    - Make word suggestion also work when using the scanning mode
    - Doctests available for English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and
      Spanish
  * Add auto-capitalization
    - Off by default because very new
    - Add corresponding option to the Preferences of Onboard
    - Independent of word suggestions
  * Add XInput as a new event source and make it the default: (LP: #905636)
    - Fall back to GTK event handling if XInput 2.2 isn't available
    - Allow switching between GTK and XInput events without restarting Onboard
    - Listen only to the XInput client pointer and its slaves
    - Make XInput target specific windows instead of root window
    - Support Multi-touch
    - Don't count scroll-wheel movement as button presses
    - Grab pointer even if click is performed by different device than movement
    - Fix pointer becoming unresponsive on wetab tablet (LP: #1095508)
  * Docking: 
    - Fix returning to the undocked position when turning off docking
  * Layouts:
    - Add new layout called Phone
    - Add new layout called Small
    - Fix Euro sign not being typed in Phone and Small layouts (LP: #1164009)
    - Fix key stroke width not being written to theme files
    - Make layouts understand a new 'layout' tag for sub-layouts
    - Make layouts understand a new 'compact' attribute for boxes
    - New 'svg_id' attribute allows ids in the svg file different from key id
    - New key attribute 'label_margin' to influence the size of the labels
    - New attribute 'theme_id' for keys
    - Allow multiple characters in char attribute of layouts
    - Fall back to default layout on a layout loading error
    - Allow blocking of auto-switch to layer0 for arbitrary sub-trees
    - Perform various layout tweaks
    - Move hide button to word suggestion line when visible
    - Update layouts format versions to 3.1
  * Remove support for python 2
  * Integrate functionality of virtkey extension into Onboard; the separate
    python-virtkey package is not necessary anymore
  * Fix another problem with handling the no core keyboard case (LP: 526791)
  * Fix setting the Super key label override in the Preferences dialog
  * Make system defaults work also after a manual install (LP: #1210568)
  * Prevent motion event congestion when using XInput (LP: #1210665)
  * Base remapping of middle and right click on XInput (LP: #1191098)
  * Add another click type switching method under XInput (LP: #1210575)
  * Allow to wrap simulated clicks in left Alt presses (LP: #1212248)
  * Support XDG Base Directory Specification (LP: #1074448)
  * Don't create empty user directories until they are needed (LP: #1105843)
  * Allow drag selection of keys (LP: #644210)
  * Add HighContrast icon (LP: #1082243)
  * Fix onboard sometimes not switching labels back to lower case (LP: #1207503)
  * Ensure proper python thread state in gdk event filters (LP: #1189946)
  * Properly set up signal handler in the osk python thread state (LP: #1195857)
  * Fix segfault when activating drag click the first time without hover click
  * Don't interrupt manual window movement with auto-show repositioning
  * Do not support anymore outdated conversion to gsettings (LP: #1123789)
  * Fix window resizing while the scanner is enabled
  * Don't flash the icon palette when rotating the screen of the Nexus 7
  * Terminate drag click on pointer stop instead of click to work around bug
  * Move keyboard to current desktop with D-Bus Show() in OpenBox (LP: #1092166)
  * Work around hang/endless loop when quickly switching themes
  * Fix URL bar of Epiphany web browser not being detected by AT-SPI
  * Various fixes to improve python2 compatibility
  * Fix osk errors found by cpychecker
  * Make more AT-SPI processing asynchronous
  * Handle more uncaught AT-SPI exceptions
  * Don't read much data from accessibles before we know them to be of interest
  * Let ConfigObject be the interface of all gsettings delay and apply calls
  * Improve appearance of the Preferences dialog
  * Allow starting up without python(3)-dbus (runs with reduced functionality)
  * Update system defaults example files
  * Make themes work with more layers
  * Improve themes and color schemes
  * Add sdist to pkg-config debugging aid
  * Remove Alt-Tab blocking on Nexus 7 (LP: #1082101)
  * Drop gconf2 migration
  * Update some labels and tooltips
  * Some code cleanup

Version 0.99.0~alpha1~tr1190
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  * Fix Onboard becoming empty when system font dpi changes

Version 0.99.0~alpha1~tr1188
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  * Onboard requires now virtkey >= 0.63.0
  * Add example file with system defaults for the nexus7
  * Various changes to get acceptable speeds on the nexus7 (LP: #1070760)
  * Add docking feature (LP: #405034)
  * Add sliding feature for docking and auto-repositioning
  * Add multitouch support
  * Add a toggle to stop listening to touch events in case of many problems
  * Add popup on long press for key variants like diacritics
  * New option to choose popup vs repeat for keys with variants
  * New gsettings key for the popup delay
  * Make move, frame and touch handles work on the nexus7
  * Perform simulated clicks on correct touch position
  * Auto-release pointer grab after timeout in case nexus7 is unresponsive
  * Fix xserver memory leaking
  * Improve speed when typing and moving the pointer (LP: #1055448)
  * Fix rendering being slowed by emboss effect on keycaps (LP: #890221)
  * Fix for not being able to move/resize Onboard on touchscreens (LP: #959035)
  * Have Onboard respect launcher icon size (LP: #1078554)
  * Auto-show Onboard by clicking already selected text entries (LP: #1078602)
  * Make default shortcut for language/layout work from Onboard (LP: #1078629)
  * New design of the Preferences dialog with more options (LP: #1053496)
  * Disable click buttons when mousetweaks is not installed
  * Add D-Bus service to show and hide the keyboard (LP: 1032042)
  * Don't export dbus service for embedded instances
  * Fix keys with operators (+,-,*,/) on the number keypad of Onboard
  * Set NumLock's default sticky behavior to LOCK_ONLY
  * Keep state of NumLock across restarts
  * New attribute in layout files for sticky key behaviour
  * New layout tags key_template and keysym_rule defining keysym-specific labels
  * New window tag for color schemes to define border of popups
  * New layout tag for language specific overrides in the layouts
  * Move common key definitions into template for import by layout files
  * Sync modifier states of Onboard with changes by hardware keyboard or tools
  * Fix keys not re-rendered when releasing latched modifiers (LP: #1069990)
  * Fix failure to instantiate Config singleton with python 3.3 (LP: #1065480)
  * Fix distutils-extra build with python3.3
  * Send key strokes for all modifiers (LP: #1067797)
  * Blacklist Ctrl-LAlt+Fn keys by default
  * Add alternative key generation by at-spi2
  * Show Onboard on top of full-screen windows (LP: #1035578, LP: #1035578)
  * Don't auto-start Onboard in GNOME Shell when a11y key is set (LP: #879942)
  * Try to improve struts handling for metacity and mutter
  * Fix status icon showing in MATE, Xfce and others (LP: #1044918)
  * Fix getpreferredencoding hack, by Matthias Klose
  * Build for all python3 versions, by Matthias Klose
  * Add work arounds for some problems with the search box of firefox
  * Do not abort startup if dconf key migration fails
  * Improve startup sequence to fix Onboard showing up sometime at position 0.0
  * Hide preferences button if g-c-c isn't in PATH (LP: #1053194)
  * Give --not-show-in less chance to cause D-Bus timeouts in GNOME Shell
  * Also add stack traces to file logging
  * Fix configuring of Direct Scan
  * Fix vendor/product id lookup of input devices
  * Fix input device listing in the Preferences dialog
  * Make scanning work out of the box on the nexus7
  * Fix opening SVG files when used in python2 mode
  * Small changes to some themes
  * Add new Nightshade theme
  * Add keystroke width to the theme settings
  * Highlight pressed keys longer for better visibility on slow computers
  * More visual tweaks
  * Several code cleanups

Version 0.98.0
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  * Move gsettings path to /org/onboard (LP: #982699); thanks R. Ancell
  * Various visual improvements: 
    - push down effect on keys
    - keys now have shadows
    - smaller touch handles
    - tweak images used by click buttons and other keys
    - smoother transparency transitions
  * Detect window manager to care for its specificities
  * Add command line option to override automatic environment detection
  * Mark command line help as translatable
  * Add middle click in hover click mode; requires mousetweaks >= 3.3.90
  * Various auto-show fixes
  * Stop endless loop of auto-show on top of unity dash
  * Fix some show/hide problems
  * Stop wiggling of launcher icons on show/hide of keyboard window
  * Various python3 adaptions, trying to keep python2 compatibility
  * Move to python3 needs virtkey version >= 0.61.0
  * Switch all translated strings to unicode (LP: 933030)
  * Make python3 the default
  * Don't show disabled buttons when XEmbedding (LP: #1019593)
  * Don't create the icon palette when XEmbedding
  * Add new color scheme to follow the HighContrastInverse theme update
  * Keep Onboard on top of full-screen windows in force-to-top mode (LP: #1035578)
  * Fix keyboard and icon palette not always above dash
  * Add lockdown key to disable all dwell-activation
  * Adapt to WM_NAMEs of Unity version 6
  * Write message listing dependencies when sdist fails
  * Add tests to check translations for errors, uses python-nose
  * Make Onboard more robust against translation errors
  * Make icon palette dwellable
  * Add dconf version detection, thanks Robert Ancell
  * Fix Super key (LP: #900191)
  * Make menu key pop up context menu
  * Separate layout loading from the keyboard widget
  * Improve exception handling for theme and color files
  * Limit keyboard size when it doesn't fit on screen (LP: #991318)
  * Trap various X BadWindow errors (LP: #1016980)
  * Work around regression of configure event in quantal
  * Remove wnck dependency as gtk3's window-state-event reports iconification
  * Prevent zombie process when launching preferences (LP: #936332)
  * Only appear in gnome-screen-saver if onboard was running (LP: #938302)
  * Don't check for running Onboard if "Typing Assistant" is on (LP: #938302)
  * Fix some problems when compositing is enabled
  * Switch window property to type XA_CARDINAL for compiz
  * Fix keyboard window not moving when the gsettings keys are changed
  * Fix regression when starting in unity-greeter
  * Suppress python error messages in unity-greeter
  * Catch SIGTERM and make sure all keys are released when exiting (LP: #978430)
  * Don't hide the keyboard when switching themes in unity-greeter
  * Fix saving of keyboard window and icon palette after first start
  * Fix theme not being remembered between launches
  * Make active modifier keys visible in scanning mode
  * Fix init of scanning mode with Xinput 2.2 and GTK 3.5.12-0ubuntu1
  * Fix python3 encoding errors in non-Unicode locales
  * Fix python3 encoding error when trying to personalize a layout
  * Fix python3 backtrace on adding a new snippet
  * Fix migration of gsettings values of icon palette
  * Fix startup of Onboard for some tablet users
  * Don't get resized by compiz grid plugin
  * Fix saving of home-rect in GNOME Shell when decoration is active
  * Fix keyboard window resizing when rotating screen in GNOME Shell
  * Inform unity that this is an on-screen keyboard, cf LP: #739812
  * Fix idle transparency kicking in while typing into firefox awesomebar
  * Exit cleanly on Ctrl-c
  * Fix typos in tooltips
  * Some code and comments cleanup

Version 0.97.0
--------------

    * Add improved scanning feature to osk extension
      - scanning works with all official layouts
      - different scan modes are available
      - support for 1, 2, 3 and 5 switches
      - devices can be configured to be used exclusively for scanning
    * Port osk extension to GTK3
    * Add auto-show with auto-move feature; requires at-spi2 (LP: #443986)
      - confirm activation of at-spi2 with a dialog
      - automatically move Onboard when it covers the input focus
      - no auto-move when the keyboard is manually shown
      - logging of focused at-spi accessibles through 'onboard -ddebug'
    * Hide and show Onboard with a middle click on the indicator icon
    * Add new icons for appindicator matching Ambiance and Radiance themes
    * Add lockdown options for kiosk mode (LP: #879944)
    * Silently embed into gnome-screen-saver if no app did so (LP: #857813)
    * Make Onboard aware of screen rotation (LP: 911821)
    * Protect against accidental resize/move of Onboard's windows (LP: #893644)
    * Add option to disable resize handles (LP: #930373)
    * Allow resizing with all mouse buttons
    * Show menu entry for Xubuntu/Xfce (LP: #833862)
    * Extend force-to-top mode to the Icon Palette
    * Allow /user/local/share/onboard as an alternative installation directory
    * Support starting onboard-settings in cli with non default language
    * Don't start more than one instance under normal usage
    * Fix onboard-settings crash in get_selected_layout_filename (LP: #913484)
    * Add double click and drag click also for non dwelling mode
    * Adjust category of the onboard-settings.desktop file (LP: #833873)
    * Add more modifier behaviors: cycle (default), dblclick, latch, lock
    * Add option to always show on visible workspace (LP: #803875)
    * Add Alan Bell's themes: Typist, ModelM
    * Add HighContrast, HighContrastInverse and LowContrast themes
    * Option to track GTK theme to have Onboard switch to matching theme
    * Make the colors of the icon of the Icon Palette adapt to the theme
    * Calculate corner radius of the Icon Palette based on it's size
    * Let Onboard draw itself the icon of Icon Palette instead of loading it
    * Make a newly created customized theme the active one
    * Stop selecting the default theme when resetting or deleting a theme
    * Remove overrides for font setting and key label from themes
    * Add format information to schemas, themes and colors files
    * Convert sticky-key-behavior and system-theme-associations to dicts
    * Show touch handles when activating drag click in dwell mode
    * Show touch handles on long press of the move button
    * Save window geometry 5 seconds after it was changed (LP: #819971)
    * Add option to keep aspect ratio of keyboard window
    * Update and fix system defaults example file
    * Give the AppIndicator an accessible description (LP: #891931)
    * Try to protect against bad accessibles
    * Fix backtrace and ignore menu positioning with the status icon fallback
    * Add shortcuts to the Preferences dialog
    * Allow canceling click buttons actions at any time before the click
    * Limit system impact of click polling (LP: #928800)
    * Don't let the move button leave the screen (LP: 885608)
    * Ask window manager to remove the maximize function (LP: #859288)
    * Fix Unity 2D fighting with Onboard for the top spot
    * Fix starting of the Preferences of Onboard on the LiveCD (LP: #877592)
    * Block opening of Preferences when running in the Display Manager
    * Improve handling of gsettings events (LP: #877601)
    * Don't let compiz grid plugin resize the Icon Palette (LP: 893644)
    * New color scheme format to better support detailed color settings
    * Rename key attributes. "hovered" -> "prelight" and "latched" -> "active"
    * Fix middle and right click button for 0.95 legacy layouts
    * Fix Icon Palette flashing when unity-greeter is killed
    * Fix Icon Palette not restoring the correct position
    * Don't fail to start on older versions of gtk3 (3.0.11 on Mandriva 2011)
    * Fix missing super key label on distributions without the ubuntu logo
    * Fix almost invisibly short feedback on keypress occuring on some notebooks
    * Fix Onboard being invisible after unlocking the screen
    * Fix transparency bug when rapidly toggling inactivity timer
    * Work around transparency state loss due to bug 837456
    * Fix intltool warnings about messages being hard to translate
    * Rename layer buttons
    * Remove outdated hint about option for modal dialogs in AT panel
    * Remove unused images
    * Fix black corner issue when auto-starting in unity (LP: #877604)
    * No fade delay when hiding Onboard and transparency is not supported
    * Don't set inactive transparency when a text field gets focus while typing
    * Remove redundant hook check
    * Improve hide/show by using libwnck (LP: #917386), new runtime dependency
    * Fix broken hide button in metacity without compositing
    * Prevent onboard from disappearing when jammed into the lower left corner
    * Don't allow to open multiple new snippet dialogs in force-to-top mode
    * Don't hide new snippet dialog behind keyboard window in force-to-top mode
    * Remove all active grabs
    * Fix hidden window appearing as ghost in Metacity (LP: #929513)
    * Fix showing of Icon Palette of first try in Metacity
    * Fix typo in message about turning on accessibility (LP: #929226)
    * Fix several backtraces
    * Cleanup gsettings schema
    * Rename tool-tip to tooltip (LP: #912929)
    * Improve and fix some tooltips and key names
    * Don't show tooltips while moving the keyboard
    * Code cleanup, typo fixing, gui and tooltip improvements, performance fixes
    * Replace % operator by python 3 string formatting to avoid encoding errors
    * Begin python3 (>=3.2) conversion
    * Add Gerd to AUTHORS file and order the names alphabetically

Version 0.96.0
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	* 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)

Version 0.95.0
--------------

    * Add support for themes supporting gradients, color schemes, round
      corners, fonts, font styles, ... (partially Alan Bells; LP: #713466)
    * Themes available:
         - Ambiance (LP: #768583, Alan Bells design for Ubuntu 11.04)
         - Blackboard
         - Classic Onboard
         - Darkroom
         - Droid
    * Use the theme for color information; not anymore the layout file
    * Add theming to cli parameters
    * Add configuration file for distributions to control default appearance
    * Add possibility to name each snippet button according to its content
    * Some cosmetic improvements by Gerd Kohlberger
    * Move user settings from .sok to .onboard directory
    * Rename layout files according to convention <layout name>-<pane name>.svg
    * Make capitalisation of the name of Onboard consistent (LP: #524297)
    * Fix and improve the "Personalize current layout" fonctionality
    * Improve handling of deleted and invalid layout filenames
    * Bring the height of the scan layout in line with the other layouts
    * Fix memory leak (LP: #732179)
    * Fix the close function of the status icon (LP: #718458)
    * Improve mouse button emulation by increasing click polling (LP: #731642)
    * Fix loading of default layout (LP: #769104)
    * Import community translations from launchpad on 21st June 2011)
    * Replace the word "Settings" with "Preferences" already used in Onboard
    * Fix some usage of the ellipsis symbol
    * Reduce the number of layout updates
    

Version 0.94.0
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    * Make onboard follow keyboard layout changes (LP: 526791, LP: 65626)
    * Save onboard geometry on quit instead on configure-events (LP: #596248)
    * Improve handling of missing dependency for the clicks (LP: #524148):
        - Use soname instead of linker for libXi in X11.py
        - Add dependency on libxi6 to break package build if necessary
        - Get current version of soname for libx11 from environment
        - Respect DISPLAY environment variable in KeyboardGTK.py
        - Add debian/README.source with info about libxi6 and libx11
    * Do not crash if icon of IconPalette is missing (LP: #538109)
    * Fix Menu key, Delete key and Insert key
    * Qualify the import of our X11 module
    * Make strings in X11 module translatable
    * Some cleanup by remove trailing spaces

Version 0.93.0
------------

    * Add option to make onboard appear when unlocking the screen
    * Add possibility to do a middle click/right click by doing a left click
    * Fix for the translations (LP: #452897)
    * Replace with-keyword for compatibility with python < 2.6 (LP: #460389)
    * Do not launch settings dialog under GDM (LP: #440371)
    * Minimize to IconPalette if running under GDM, instead of disappearing
    * Fix capitalisation of the word GNOME (LP: #495526)
    * Check against version of auto module and not against version of package
    * Make it compatible to DistUtilsExtra.auto >= 2.10
    * Adjust permissions and fix typo (LP: #461491)
    * Fix long description in schemas file
    * Fix keysym of Del key
    * Fix taskbar icon visibility (LP: #456178)

Version 0.92.0
------------

    New release including
     - More complete i18n.
     - Improved rendering of the labels on keys.
     - The option to minimize to a floating icon.
     - A couple of new keyboard layouts.

Version 0.91.2
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    Bugfix release.

Version 0.91.1
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    Typo fix release.

Version 0.91
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    Release.