Summary of changes

• Allow to keep physical size constant in portrait mode
  
• Allow to add empty bottom bar in portrait mode
  
• Fix adding additional completions in hunspell
  
• Use system default font instead of hardcoding Cantarell
  
• Drop built in emoji data
  
• Use key-pressed instead of button-pressed for
  feedback
  
• Fix translations of completer information in p-m-s
  
• Issues fixed:
  
  • https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/stevia/-/issues/45
    
  • https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/stevia/-/issues/61
    
  • https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/stevia/-/issues/69
    
  • https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/stevia/-/issues/71
    
• Contributors:
  
  • Achill Gilgenast
    
  • Guido Günther
    

i18n updates

• UI translations:
  
  • Guido Günther (de)
    

Detailed changes

phosh-osk-stevia (0.49.0) experimental; urgency=medium
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  [ Guido Günther ]
  * emoji-db: Make it easier to read.
    We just 0-terminate the string here
  * emoji-db: Take endianess into account.
    The db is LE so convert to host byte order
    Closes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/stevia/-/issues/61
  * emoji-db: Use GTKs emoji data
  * emoji: Drop emoji data.
    We can just pick up what GTK ships.
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  [ Achill Gilgenast ]
  * stylesheet: Drop cantarell as font family.
    GNOME switched to Adwaita Fonts for their font family and dropped Cantarell.
    Just use the default font used in the system and don't hardcode it.
    Closes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/stevia/-/issues/69
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phosh-osk-stevia (0.49~rc1) experimental; urgency=medium
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  * wayland: New singleton to track Wayland protocols.
    Similar to what we do in phosh. This frees the stevia
    class from the protocol handling and makes it easier
    to access Wayland protocols in other classes.
    We emit a `ready` signal once all needed protocols
    were announced by the registry.
  * stevia: Instantiate wayland singleton
  * stevia: Use wayland singleton.
    This allows us to drop the registry handling
  * stevia: Track Wayland outputs
  * completer: Fix path to po data.
    Otherwise the translations won't be added to the completer
    info files.
  * completer: Make sure description gets replaced in the desktop file.
    This makes sure `Description` gets transfered from the po file
    to the generated desktop file.
  * po: Add `Description` keyword.
    Otherwise it will not be extracted from the completer "desktop" like files
    in data/completers when running `ninja -C _build phosh-osk-stevia-update-po`
  * po: Update German translation
  * data/schema: Add description for keyboard shortcuts.
    Makes `gsettings describe` more useful.
  * osk-widget: Make key height a property
  * input-surface: Fix size comparison.
    We want to compare with the widget height not a variable
    that is currently never set (thus zero).
  * input-surface: No need to request natural size.
    We don't use it
  * input-surface: Add a minimum height.
    If the layer surface is smaller than that we will require
    at least that height.
  * input-surface: Add dead-zone property.
    This allows to configure an empty space at the bottom of all layouts.
  * input-surface: Adjust key height based on surface size
  * osk-widget: Allow to get max rows.
    Gets the maximum number of key rows in a layout.
  * input-surface: Take number of layout rows into account.
    Closes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/stevia/-/issues/45
  * size-manager: New object to calculate input surface size.
    The size manager takes the current outputs physical and logical
    size into account to calculate height when the corresponding
    gsettings are enabled.
    This is currently limited to portrait mode.
    We target the keyboard's key area height to be 4cm so keys are reasonably
    sized. The target height for the dead zone at the bottom is 8mm. This
    is useful on taller devices as otherwise when typing the bottom row requires
    additional force as the center of gravity is far away from the supporting
    fingers.
  * osk-stevia: Instantiate size manager
  * stevia: Make default input surface height a variable
  * stevia: Wire up size manager.
    Bind the `dead-zone` and `height` property
  * doc: Document new configuration flags
  * input-surface: Separate button and key press.
    This will allow us to use the new fbd event for OSK key presses
  * input-surface: Use key new event.
    We set the important hint as we want the OSK's haptic
    feedback to stay on when the phone goes to silent mode
    (unless the user turns it off explicitly).
  * hunspell-completer: Fix additional completions.
    We used the old completer rather than the new one from the builder.
    While at that make the presage and hunspell completers more look
    alike by using `GStrvBuilder` everywhere.
    Fixes: a849b11de ("hunspell: Check for emojis too by using PosCompleterBase")
  * doc: Link to blog posts.
    They provide useful information for development. Brush
    up the README a bit while at that.
  * doc: Explain how to test layout changes.
    Closes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/stevia/-/issues/71

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:

• gtk: Avoid crash when swipe closing the OSK
  
• 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)