Summary of changes

• New layouts:
  
  • Belarusian (by)
    
  • French (fr+bepo) terminal-layout
    
  • Japanese (jp)
    
  • Serbian (rs), (rs+latin), (rs+latinunicode)
    
• Changed layouts:
  
  • Thai (th):
    
    • There is less empty space now.
      
    • Most buttons are wider now.
      
    • The arrangement of buttons for the symbols and numbers views, is more consistent with other layouts now.
      
• Fixes:
  
  • "Keyboard Settings" in the language-selection-popover will now open the correct panel in GNOME Settings.
    
  • On some relatively small screens in horizontal orientation, the compact shape was used instead of the wide shape,
    even though the wide shape can fit into the same height. The wide shape will be used on those screens now.
    
• Changes:
  
  • The height of the panel will adapt to screens differently.
    In particular, the panel will be 1/3 of the screen's height on most monitors in horizontal orientation,
    and as tall as it can be, while maintaining the aspect-ratio of the wide shape (16:5) without empty space next to it,
    for most monitors in vertical orientation.
    
  • GSettings for adjusting the height of the panel for the keyboard have been added.
    
  • The documentation has been improved. In particular, it should now be much easier to learn how to test changes to Squeekboard and layouts.
    
  • After building a Debian-package for Squeekboard and installing it, update-alternatives is now supported.
    
  • The layout-files now have the English name of the language for which the respective layout is, in a comment at the top of the file.
    
  • For a few languages which do not have a layout yet, a more appropriate fallback-layout will be chosen.
    
• Contributors:
  
  • Guido Günther
    
  • MoonlightWave-12
    

i18n updates

• UI translations:
  
  • Sabri Ünal (tr)
    

Detailed changes

squeekboard (1.42.0) experimental; urgency=medium

  [ MoonlightWave-12 ]
  * */meson.build: Fix warnings about features deprecated since Meson 0.56
  * layouts: Adjust French (fr+bepo) terminal-layout and make it available
  * layouts: Improve the size of the Thai (th) layout
  * Cargo.lock: Update dependencies

squeekboard (1.42.0~rc1) experimental; urgency=medium

  [ MoonlightWave-12 ]
  * meson.build: Check the exit-status-code of `run_command()`
  * debian: Support using `update-alternatives`
  * documentation: Improve documentation
  * .gitignore: Add debian/*.debhelper
  * layouts: Add Serbian layouts
  * layouts: Increase the font-size of the wide shape of the Malayalam layout
  * layouts: Add English language-names to layout-files
  * Layouts: Add Belarusian layout
  * Layouts: Add Japanese (jp) layout based on japanese keyboards
  * Layouts: Fallback to more appropriate layouts
  * popover.rs: Open correct panel in GNOME Settings
  * layouts: Add a placeholder to the emoji-layout
  * NEWS.md: Rename to `NEWS` and Change `-` to `*` in lists
  * Cargo.toml: Simplify versions
  * Cargo.toml: Change accepted version-range to SemVer-compatible versions
  * Cargo.toml: Update dependencies
  * state.rs: Make `get_preferred_height_and_arrangement` easier to understand
  * scaling: Improve scaling
  * dependencies: Require at least version 1.0.0 of Meson
  * scaling: Add GSettings for adjusting the height of the panel
  * testing: Mention non-default scaling-settings during scaling-tests
  * Cargo.lock: Update dependencies
  * README.md: Improve the information about using the settings
  * hacking.md: Simplify `gbp dch …`-command

  [ Sabri Ünal ]
  * Update Turkish translation

  [ Guido Günther ]
  * dbus: Update OSK0 protocol from phosh