[Bug 802014] Re: SRU: Upgrade to an appearance more suitable for Unity (new release)

Francesco Fumanti francesco.fumanti at gmx.net
Sun Jun 26 19:01:30 UTC 2011


You can find the new version of Onboard in my PPA for Ubuntu Natty (without the reference to this bug thread in debian/changelog):
https://launchpad.net/~frafu/+archive/ppa

I am writing this here in case you might want to try the new release.

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Title:
  SRU:  Upgrade to an appearance more suitable for Unity (new release)

Status in Onboard onscreen keyboard:
  New

Bug description:
  Onboard, the default onscreen keyboard shipping with Ubuntu natty, does not use the Ubuntu interface font or theme colors. A bug about the problem has been filed against Onboard, that also contains a new design proposal discussed  with the relevant people. In case that you are interested in the details of the design, here is the url of the bug: 
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/onboard/+bug/768583

  A few days ago, Onboard 0.95.0 has been released with the following main enhancements: 
  - Addition of themes to control the appearance of Onboard; the theme with the design for natty is included in the source tarball and it is named Ambiance. 
  - A system wide default theme can be specified in a new configuration file onboard-defaults.conf (see sample file in the project root).
  - Add possibility to name each snippet button according to its content.
  - ...
  Please have a look at the debian/changelog below for the details. 

  Shortly after the release of 0.95.0, we got aware that bug LP: #788514
  broke the customisation of the themes in oneiric. So we decided to
  immediately create a following up release to fix the bug in oneiric.
  That is why this SRU uses Onboard 0.95.1 instead of Onboard 0.95.0.

  The debian source package that I am adding to this thread also
  contains a patch that uses the mechanism provided by Onboard 0.95 to
  define a system theme; I used it to define Ambiance as the system
  theme.

  Impact on users: Only the following few packages depend on Onboard:
  xubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-sugar-remix,  ubuntu-chinese-desktop,  ubuntu-
  desktop. Thus, most users should not be affected by the upgrade as
  only the people using the onscreen keyboard will see the difference.
  They will have an onscreen keyboard that matches the new interface of
  Ubuntu Natty.

  
  Finally, there is one problem left concerning the inclusion of Onboard 0.95 into natty: distutils-extra version 2.26 shipping in natty has a bug that breaks the building of the debian package. The bug is solved in distutils-extra version 2.28 available in oneiric. (In fact, I fetched the debian package of distutils-extra from oneiric and installed it in natty to be able to prepare the debian source package that I am going to attach to this thread.

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