skim 1.3.0/scim-qtimm 0.9.0 are released
The latest development branch of skim, version 1.3.0, is just released, along with the scim 1.3.0 compatible scim-qtimm 0.9.0. skim 1.3.0 introduces a lot of new exciting features which you have never seen in other *nix input method platforms (AFAICT). Everyone is highly encouraged to try out this version and bug reports/feedbacks are more than welcomed.
The new features I'd like to highlight here is the most significant ones:
- Main Window Dockable into Panel (only works with kicker)
- Transparent Window support
- 4 Direction support in Main Window
Several screenshots were updated to reflect the latest version, please have a look at our screenshots collection while you are compiling the new release ;)
Other items in the skim ChangeLog since 1.2.x includes:
- new: reworked Always show option of Main Window
- new: three more modifier keys support (meta/hyper/super) and a config options to customize modifiers
- new: filter setup dialog for the filter mechanism (new to libscim 1.3.0)
- improvement: refined configure dialog to be more user friendly, re-structured the hierachy and new icons
- improvement: do not display the border of the next/previous buttons; hide next/previous button when disabled (thanks to cjacker for advice)
- improvement: smaller buttons in main toolbar which just use as little space as possible
- improvement: String layout in Input Window
- new: SCIM Setup can be added to the Main Toolbar
Please download this release in usual place.
From this release, no single IMEngine setup UI is included with skim any more: they were splitted out to their corresponding packages. Thus before all the IMEngines have next releases, please use scim-setup temporarily for IMEngine specific settings.
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