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FFE: Fix onboard to small in unity-greeter (LP: #1297695)

Bug #1303370 reported by Francesco Fumanti
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Bug Description

Hi,

Onboard 1.0.0 has improved its appearance in unity-greeter by not stretching anymore its window over the whole width of the screen; it now uses an aspect ratio, where the letter keys on it have a shape similar to a square.

It turned out, that the nearly squared keys are too small for certain people:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/onboard/+bug/1297695

Thus, we have decided to change a value in the onboard-defaults.conf file, that contains the system defaults for Onboard. I replaced the line xembed-aspect-change-range=[0, 1.15] with the line xembed-aspect-change-range=[0, 1.6] in the system-defaults.conf file in order to have letter keys that are a bit wider. (The next minor release of Onboard might have a better solution for this issue. )

Could you please have a look at the provided debianisation for trusty and upload it to the repositories of Ubuntu if everything is allright?

Thanks in advance for taking it into account.

Cheers,

Francesco

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

It's a bug fix, it doesn't need an FFe. Uploading. It'll sit in the review queue of the release team though.

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Francesco Fumanti (frafu) wrote :

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for looking at it and especially for telling me that it does not need an FFE because it is a bug fix. Could you tell me if I get it right? Though the wiki talks about bug fixes in the pages of the FFE, I should only call it FFE if the features have changed; correct?

Moreover, I wonder now, whether the following sponsorship request should have been called an FFE or not:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/onboard/+bug/1289592

I suppose that it cannot be called a bugfix only release because it adds support for scaling factors > 1. The fact, that the support was introduced to solve a bug matters less than the fact, that it has introduced a new feature. Can you confirm?
* Add initial support for org.gnome.interface scaling-factor > 1 (LP #1283491)

Cheers

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package onboard - 1.0.0-0ubuntu4

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onboard (1.0.0-0ubuntu4) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Request for sponsorship (LP: #1303370)
  * debian/patches/add_defaults_for_ubuntu.patch:
    - Increase xembed aspect change range (LP: #1297695)
 -- Francesco Fumanti <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Apr 2014 21:11:15 +0200

Changed in onboard (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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