New features

• Add Emoji layout
  
• Indicate keys with popover by displaying the first
  popover char on the key.
  
• Contributors:
  
  • Guido Günther
    
  • Sam Hewitt
    

Maybe noteworthy

• Improve support for languages without a "caps" layer
  like Arabic and Hebrew.
  
• Add layouts for fr, ge, gr, hr, il, rs, si, sk, tr and za
  
• Honor stricter protocol implementation in wlroots 0.16.0
  

Detailed changes

phosh-osk-stub (0.24.0) experimental; urgency=medium
.
  [ Guido Günther ]
  * build: Drop trailing character
  * packaging: Move desktop file to private dir.
    This avoids listing it twice e.g. in mobile-setting's feedback
    pane.
  * osk-widget: Use layer sensitive label on symbol-layer key.
    Use "123" when not on the symbols layer, otherwise "ABC". This
    will make it consistent to what we use in the emoji widget.
  * input-surface: Add helper to submit current preedit.
    This is needed in several places e.g. when switching modes.
  * Add emoji data.
    Taken from GTK as of commit
    1a4e368c7e5995b342db0be74f56c1eced74a0e6
  * Add emoji-picker.
    This is based on GTK's emoji picker. Besides
    smaller fixes and dropping unneeded bits:
    - switch to horizontal scrolling
    - wrap section in a scrolled window
    - add back and delete buttons
  * input-surface: Wire up emoji picker
  * input-surface: Submit preedit before inserting emoji.
    In completion mode we don't want to complete on emojies
    but rather submit the current text and append the emoji.
  * osk-widget: Allow for empty rows.
    This avoids a crash in e.g. the Arabic layout which lacks
  * osk-widget: Improve warning.
    Print out the "missing" layer name
  * Update Layer surface from phosh.
    This syncs up to
    811c55204d2be4f4714d66fe3863bdc8d7552bed
    to fix the potential problems like
    https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard/-/issues/285
  * osk-widget: Add a hint that there's a popover.
    We display the first symbol in a slightly dimed color.
  * vk-driver: Unreak <alt> in shortcuts in the terminal's shortcut bar
  * input-surface: Don't try to adjust completion without an input method
  * input-surface: Switch widget and layer according to input purpose.
  * input-surface: Make sure to update language after setting completer.
    Otherwise we might be completing for the wrong language
  * manpage: Mention phosh manpage
  * build: Use summary()
  * main: Use g_init_once()
  * input-surface: Initialize resources.  This avoids lots of scary warnings
    when building the documentation.
  * README: Update screenshots
  * ci: Run tests in xvfb. We test widgets now
  * build: Allow to disable building the tests
  * tests: Use environment() to set test environment.
    A bit easier to read as we have key / value pairs.
  * layouts: Add more layouts.
    Again taken from gnome-shell as of
    The keyboard layouts were taken from gnome-shell as of
    6a88c0f0be5aed836f33ed2989d33add58c01403
  * osk-widget: Don't hardcode max layers in several locations.
    Get the array size from the enum.
  * osk-widget: Take layer name into account when parsing layers
    ara and il have only three layers and we want to match to the correct
    ones as otherwise we'll have symbols on the caps layer.
  * input-layer: Don't assume we have all layers.
    Otherwise we can't switch to symbols2.
  * osk-widget: Allow for empty layers on cleanup
    g_ptr_array_free() doesn't handle NULL well so guard against that.
  * osk-widget: Don't add a shift key if there's no caps layer.
    This is true in e.g. Arabic and Hebrew layouts.
  * tests: Load all layout into an osk-widget.
    This makes sure all osk-widgets can be instantiated.
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  [ Sam Hewitt ]
  * emoji-picker: Improve styling

Required versions of other projects

• gtk3 >= 3.24.35 (Otherwise surrounding text and preedit will be off)
  

Patches that are merged upstream but not yet in a released version:

• presage: Character class improvements. Otherwise word predictions will include odd characters
  

Recommended versions of related projects

• phosh-osk-data >= 0.24.0 (for word completions other than English)