New bugfix release available: Onboard 0.96.2

[Francesco Fumanti]

Hi,

Onboard 0.96.2 has just been made available as a bugfix release. These are the changes compared to the previous 0.96.1 version of Onboard:
    * Protect against accidental resize/move of Onboard window (LP: #893644)
    * Add option to always show on visible workspace (LP: #803875)
    * Give the AppIndicator an accessible description (LP: #891931)
    * Don't let compiz grid plugin resize the icon palette (LP: 893644)
    * Don't let the move button leave the screen (LP: 885608)
    * Reduce updates of gtk widget (LP: 897678)
    * Work around transparency state loss due to bug 837456
    * Fix resize cursor disapearing for north east window corner
    * Fix window corner issue in Unity on Ubuntu Precise
    * Fix Icon Palette flashing when unity-greeter is killed
    * Fix Unity 2D fighting with Onboard for the top spot
    * Fix missing super key label on distributions without the ubuntu logo
    * Fix almost invisible short feedback on keypress occuring on some notebooks
    * Don't shrink labels when the system font dpi changes
    * Don't ignore force-to-top mode when moving the window back into view
    * Hide move button when window decoration is enabled and force-to-top is off
    * Don't fail to start on older versions of gtk3 (3.0.11 on Mandriva 2011)
    * Prevent onboard getting stuck by grid plugin and gnome-shell
    * Fix middle and right click button for 0.95 legacy layouts
    * Don't crash gnome-shell when window state sticky is off
    * Make a newly created customized theme the active one
    * Stop intltool warnings about messages being hard to translate
    * Restore Authors file that was accidently deleted
    * Some cleanup, typo fixing, gui improvements and performance fixes
    * Merge oneiric translations from the 13-12-2011

I packaged it for Ubuntu precise. In addition to the changes that went into the source tarball, I added a patch to the debian source package to create make onboard start up on a clean system with values suitable to Unity. You can find the files of the debian source package attached to this bug.

@translators

0.96.2 is shipping an additional string that was not available in 0.96.1.

Cheers,

Francesco

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

I did a quick test of this package while reviewing the sponsor queue, it caused some stacking issues in unity which I wasn't able to reproduce with 0.96.1.

I attempted to activate the menus with alt-f1 (which doesn't seem to work in either version), however it caused stacking problems with the menus. Menus and indicator menus are dropping down behind the focus window. I don't use onboard much, and maybe I triggered some undesirable state, have you seen problems like this before?

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Thanks for testing Ken, even briefly. More eyes are always welcome.
This is new, I haven't seen those problems yet.

Isn't alt-f1 meant to put the focus on the launcher in unity? This appears to work here.
I believe F10 is for opening indicator menus and this indeed doesn't work from Onboard. though pointer users can just click the indicators anyway. (Not saying we shouldn't at least try to fix this in the future, there are other occasions where typing in onboard has no effect too)

I wasn't able to reproduce menus popping up behind a focused window (e.g. the onboard indicator menu behind a focused gnome-terminal) yet.
Could you post some step by step instructions on what you did? I'm assuming this is Precise with untiy(-3d).

Are those stacking problems persistent or do they go away at some point?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Ken: what do you think about getting this into precise for now and let's file a separate bug about the stacking issues? From a sponsors perspective this generally looks alright to me.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

And personally I wasn't able to trigger the problems mentioned above.

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

After reproducing it more than once last week, this morning I wasn't able too... hate problems like that :)

I've uploaded it to precise