What's new in Florence 0.6.0
Oct 8, 2012
- This version is about GNOME3. GTK2, gconf, and panelapplet are deprecated, replaced by GTK3 and gsettings.
- A new branch has been created for maintaining gtk2 code. The GNOME 2 version is still maintained in version 0.5.4.
New in Florence 0.5.3 (Mar 30, 2012)
- This version introduces some interface improvements: there is now audio feedback when pressing or releasing keys and the policy is configurable.
- A new D-Bus interface has been added to control the keyboard from other processes.
New in Florence 0.5.2 (Feb 11, 2012)
- This version introduces the touch screen input method.
- There have been some improvements to the ramble input method.
- Modifier (Alt, Shift, Ctrl, etc.) keys + click now works.
- Strings have been partially translated to Italian.
- Some other minor improvements were made and many bugs were fixed.
New in Florence 0.5.1 (Sep 28, 2011)
- Many bugfixes.
- A new hide_on_start configuration parameter.
- A new keep_ratio configuration parameter.
- A new icon. AT-SPI2 (over dbus) support.
- Removal of resize grip in the latest GTK implementations.
- A Russian translation.
New in Florence 0.5.0 (Nov 29, 2010)
- Many bugfixes.
- A new ramble input method for fast input.
- A GNOME panel applet.
- Under the hood design changes: redesigned input handling, added layout triggers, initial implementation of the future layout editor, and new layout extension placement: over.
New in Florence 0.4.6 (Jan 29, 2010)
- New feature implemented: latch to lock. Press a modifier key 1 time to
- latch it and press it again to lock it.
- Many bug fixes and code cleanup.
New in Florence 0.4.4 (Sep 10, 2009)
- This is mainly a bugfix release.
- The high CPU workload problem has been fixed.
- Documentation has been moved to gnome-doc-utils.
- Florence now listens to keys-changed events, which means that you can switch layout without restarting the program.
- Note that the Xorg RECORD extension is broken since version 1.6.
- Because of this, Florence with xrecord does not work correctly with recent distributions like Ubuntu 9.04, Mandriva 2009.1, or Fedora 11.
- Please compile Florence without xrecord if you are using Xorg 1.6 (use the --without-xrecord configure option).
New in Florence 0.4.3 (Aug 5, 2009)
- This release implements action keys.
- Those keys are available as a layout extension.
- They allow to access Florence functions without requiring a systray.
- Many bugs have been fixed.
- If you have problems with this release, please try to compile without the xtst extension (--without-xtst configure option)
New in Florence 0.4.2 (Jul 9, 2009)
- Make xkb optional
- Make at-spi optional
- Add a new keyboard layout (compact)
- Many bug fixes
New in Florence 0.4.1 (Apr 18, 2009)
- Add a startup notification message
- Apply style and window opacity immediately
- Fix minor memory leak
- Set static gravity for window
- Listen to keyboard device events to update the status i18n and l10n in french of key labels.
New in Florence 0.4.0 (Mar 17, 2009)
- Rebrand super key with florence smile
- Change xml parsing method from sequential reader to DOM
- Get rid of hitmap
- Add window opacity configuration parameter
- Implement tabs in settings dialog and add relevant parameters
- Add move_to_widget settings option
- Add intermediate icon option
- Many bug fixes (mainly concerning auto-hide)
New in Florence 0.3.3 (Feb 21, 2009)
- The project has been internationalized with gettext and localized in French. Some minor bugs have been fixed.
New in Florence 0.3.2 (Jan 25, 2009)
- This release focuses on usability.
- The settings dialog has changed to allow more control over visual settings.
- The zoom scrollbar has been replaced with the ability to resize the window more naturally from the window manager.
New in Florence 0.3.1 (Dec 12, 2008)
- The focus of this release is style.
- You can now select a style for the keyboard in the settings dialog.
- The default style has been updated, and 2 new styles have been added.
- The settings dialog now listens to gconf events.
New in Florence 0.3.0 (Sep 16, 2008)
- The most visible change of this version is its speed.
- It starts more quickly and is more responsive.
- Animation is also smoother.
- The non-locking modifiers keys don't behave exactly like previous versions of florence.
- All modifiers are released when a non-modifier key is pressed.
- Under the hood, the drawing system has been redesigned to use less memory with cairo and librsvg instead of libgnomecanvas and libart.
- XML schema validation has been replaced with relax-ng (compact syntax) validation for the layout file.
- This is much more readable and maintainable.