The about dialog doesn't show many thing

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* Launch onboard settings
 * find the agencing layout tab
 * clic on the 'about' button ("à propos" in french)
 * the popup with only an icon and button appears

(cf the attached screenshot)

Using ppa:onboard/stable on Ubuntu 13.10, with French as default system language

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ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-17 (151 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: onboard 1.0.1-0ppa~saucy1 [origin: LP-PPA-onboard-stable]
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-18.32-generic 3.11.10.4
Tags: saucy third-party-packages
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-18-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: Ce paquet n'est pas officiellement pris en charge par Ubuntu. Veuillez désinstaller tout paquet tiers et réessayer.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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I suppose this issue might be fixed by completing the translation :

https://translations.launchpad.net/onboard/1.0/+pots/onboard/fr/+translate?start=0&batch=10&show=untranslated&field.alternative_language=fr&field.alternative_language-empty-marker=1&old_show=all

Can someone confirm this ?

[marmuta (marmuta)]

No, the translation isn't supposed to be necessary, untranslated strings should simply show up as the English original.
The problem was that the about dialog tried to translate an empty string, which somehow pulled in a whole bunch of translation meta data. You would likely see some "error parsing markup" warning when you ran Onboard from terminal.
I've pushed two fixes to trunk. LANGUAGE=fr ./onboard-settings shows the about dialog correctly now.

[Anthony Wong (anthonywong)]

Hi marmuta or other Onboard developers,
Do you have any plan to update the package in Ubuntu, the current version in Vivid is still 1.0.0.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Yeah, there've been a bunch of bug fixes, we should really have a new release. Let me work through the remaining bug reports to see what's left to do.

[Eason (qulei)]

This bug still exists in Vivid x32 Daily Build 20141214

[Anthony Wong (anthonywong)]

Hi marmuta,

As you may aware, Ubuntu 15.04 feature freeze will happen on Feb 19th. It will be great if we will have a new bug-fix release of onboard in 15.04. Do you think you and your team can make a new release in the near future?

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Hi Anthony,
thanks for the reminder and apologies for the delay. We were actually about to create the release last weekend, but it failed testing. Onboard doesn't rise above Dash currently. We now believe this was caused by a recent change in Unity, though, and it looks like there's not much else we can do from our side. Another regression with LibreOffice Writer came up yesterday, but that one I could fix. The release will come real soon (TM) now.

[Francesco Fumanti (frafu)]

Hi,

Onboard versions 1.1.0, which includes a fix for this bug, has been published today.

You can get it from our stable PPA [1] for trusty, utopic and vivid or you can wait for it to be available in the Ubuntu vivid repositories [2].

[1]: https://launchpad.net/~onboard/+archive/ubuntu/stable
[2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/onboard/+bug/1415041

Cheers

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package onboard - 1.1.0-0ubuntu1

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onboard (1.1.0-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=low

  * Request for sponsorship for new upstream release (LP: #1415041)
  * debian/control:
    - Raise Standards-Version to 3.9.6
    - Add xdg-utils to Recommends
  * debian/copyright:
    - Edit emails to add small protection against email harvesting
    - Update years information
  * debian/onboard.install:
    - Add the usr/share/onboard/settings_auto_show_dialog.ui file
  * debian/patches:
    - Remove patch to add support for MATE (now upstream)
    - Remove patch to fix the auto-start issue (now upstream)
    - Update add_defaults_for_ubuntu.patch with values for this release
  * debian/rules:
    - Remove shebang rewrite from override_dh_python3
    - Add no-guessing-deps to override_dh_python3
  * Word suggestions:
    - Add possibility to learn word sequences, but no new words
    - Add removal of words from current user language model on long press
    - Add removal of a word in current context only
    - Add tool to extract letter frequencies from a given language model
    - Use slash as word separator in the path component of URLs
    - Improve word suggestions after a wrap to a second line in gnome-terminal
    - Better handle interaction with the awesome bar's URL completion of firefox
    - Fix synchronisation between libreoffice writer and text document
    - Fix insertion of word separators consisting of more than one character
    - Delete selected text before inserting suggestions into Gtk-3 widgets
    - Fix memory leak in predict calls
    - Improve robustness of language model loading by handling word counts <= 0
    - Have the checkmodels tool check for valid n-gram frequency fields
    - Fix and improve broken doctest for _get_word_to_spell_check()
    - Remove "th" from the English system language models
    - Increase the number of words in the German system language models
    - Fix traceback when migrating user language model with LANG=C
    - Always use "Other Languages" as name for submenu of languages menu
    - Move second separator in language menu to correct position
  * Auto-show and auto-hide:
    - Add hiding of Onboard keyboard on physical key-press for XInput
    - Add setting for the time to stay hidden after physical key-press
    - Add possibility to turn off repositioning on auto-show (LP #1402212)
    - Centralize auto-show code to make it available for future views
    - Correctly register at-spi listeners on startup
    - Correctly disconnect events on exit
    - Fix auto-show on cursor movement in single-line text entries
  * XEmbedding in unity-greeter and gnome-screensaver:
    - Enable hide button in unity-greeter; needs restart until greeter assists
    - Add a toggle to system defaults to enable the background image
    - Read filename of background in greeter's shema in unity-greeter
    - Ignore xembed-unity-greeter-offset-x on small screens
    - Increase xembed aspect change range (LP: #1297695)
    - Add the color of the background bar to system defaults
    - Fix loading of desktop backgrounds with non-ascii filenames
    - Fix black bars problem
    - Fix background ...