New minor release available: version 0.95.0 - diff.gz provided

[Francesco Fumanti]

I am opening a bug to prepare the debian package of the new release of Onboard in order to submit it to the sponsorship process for main. I will subscribe Ubuntu Sponsors Team only once the necessary data are available in the bug thread.

[Francesco Fumanti (frafu)]

Changelog of the debian package:
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  * New minor release available (LP: #800863)
  * Add support for themes supporting gradients, color schemes, round
    corners, fonts, font styles, ... (partially Alan Bells; LP: #713466)
  * Themes available:
       - Ambiance (LP: #768583, Alan Bells design for Ubuntu 11.04)
       - Blackboard
       - Classic Onboard
       - Darkroom
       - Droid
  * Use the theme for color information; not anymore the layout file
  * Add theming to cli parameters
  * Add configuration file for distributions to control default appearance
  * Add possibility to name each snippet button according to its content
  * Some cosmetic improvements by Gerd Kohlberger
  * Move user settings from .sok to .onboard directory
  * Rename layout files according to convention <layout name>-<pane name>.svg
  * Make capitalisation of the name of Onboard consistent (LP: #524297)
  * Fix and improve the "Personalize current layout" fonctionality
  * Improve handling of deleted and invalid layout filenames
  * Bring the height of the scan layout in line with the other layouts
  * Fix memory leak (LP: #732179)
  * Fix the close function of the status icon (LP: #718458)
  * Improve mouse button emulation by increasing click polling (LP: #731642)
  * Fix loading of default layout (LP: #769104)
  * Import community translations from launchpad on 21st June 2011)
  * Replace the word "Settings" with "Preferences" already used in Onboard
  * Fix some usage of the ellipsis symbol
  * Reduce the number of layout updates
  * debian/control:
      - Raise Standards-Version to 3.9.2
  * debian/patches:
      - Remove patch to hide the desktop icons

A few additional comments:
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1) This release contains among others the update of the UI with Alan Bells design for Natty; this is done through themes and Alan Bells theme is called Ambiance.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/768583

2) A system wide default theme can be specified in a new configuration file onboard-defaults.conf (see sample file in the project root). This is particularly interesting for distributions that want Onboard to appear with a particular theme. However, cli parameters and user settings override the system wide defaults.

3) I removed the patch to hide the desktop icons. In fact, the Ubuntu developers used to hide the desktop icons of Onboard before Unity appeared, because they did not want the Universal Access menu to be visible in the menus. As Unity changed the presentation of the desktop icons, this patch does probably not make sense anymore.

4) Onboard needs distutils-extra >= 2.10. However, some later versions of distutils-extra (at least version 2.26 and 2.27) have a bug that breaks the building of Onboard. That bug has been fixed in version 2.28 of distutils-extra that is currently available in oneiric. I was not sure whether I had to raise the version requirement of distutils-extra to 2.28 in debian/control. However, as onboard is buildable with distutils-extra version before the bug landed into it, I decided to leave the requirement of distutils-extra for Onboard at 2.10. I hope to...

[Francesco Fumanti (frafu)]

The source tarball is also available here:
https://launchpad.net/onboard

[Francesco Fumanti (frafu)]

I am marking this as invalid because of a bug that appeared in the customisation of the themes. I will open a new bug thread once Onboard 0.95.1 with a bug fix is available. (It will probably happen quite soon.)