v4.0.0.dev12

Plover 4.0.0.dev12

Plover is going through a huge overhaul to make for a better experience for our users, and developers, too.

Warning: Version 4 is a major change and the configuration file it creates is not compatible with Plover 3 or earlier. Please backup your plover.cfg

Installation Guide

Read the Installation Guide to see which file you need to download.

Features

User Interface

• Show detailed information about each available serial port in the machine configuration dialog. (#1510)
• Add support for styling the Qt GUI: automatically load and apply a custom stylesheet from plover.qss (in the configuration directory) when present. (#1514)
• Capture and log Qt messages. (#1534)
• Change the paper tape / suggestions widget selection mode to "extended" (allow selecting multiple items, support shift/control), and allow copying the current selection to clipboard using the standard copy shortcut. (#1539)

Linux

• Use /dev/serial/by-id/xxxx links for each available serial port in the machine configuration dialog. (#1510)

Bugfixes

Core

• Fix possible exception when calling Engine.clear_translator_state(undo=True). (#1547)

User Interface

• Fix "add translation" dialog "Ok" button not being enabled when the strokes field is automatically populated from the latest untranslate. (#1527)
• Fix {PLOVER:ADD_TRANSLATION} implementation when using the headless GUI (-g none). (#1546)

Linux

• Fix fallback to Qt if the D-Bus log handler cannot be initialized. (#1545)

Windows

• Fix some key combinations being sent incorrectly. (#1274)

API

Breaking Changes

• Drop support for Python 3.6. (#1538)