Plover v4.0.0.dev5+9.gba958374

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

Changes

Plugins

• with a new plugins manager, install, list, update, and remove plugins from within Plover!
• new supported plugins:
  • Dict Commands
    Enable, disable, and reorder your dictionaries using strokes.
  • Dictionary Builder
    Interactive wizard to build up your dictionaries from a text article or list of words.
  • Italian Stentura
    Use an Italian Stentura machine with Plover.
  • MIDI
    Use a MIDI piano or a dedicated MIDI machine like Michela with Plover. For keyboard makers: MIDI is a great protocol option with lots of keys and is easier to implement than some serial protocols.
  • Plugins Manager (installed by default)
    Find, install, update, and remove plugins for Plover.
  • Python Dictionary
    .py dictionaries are pure functions that map a set of chords to a translation. A better alternative to scripting the creation of dictionaries for anyone who knows Python.
  • Treal (installed by default)
    Use the Treal steno machine (the code was moved out of Plover and into a plugin).
  • VLC Commands
    Control VLC media player playback using strokes.
  • Windows Brightness
    Control monitor brightness on Windows.
  • WPM Meter
    Speedometer widgets that show your typing speed and strokes-per-second.
• support for custom machine configuration widgets

User Interface

• new icon for read-only dictionaries
• show a “reload” icon while dictionaries are being loaded
• outdated dictionaries are automatically reloaded on configuration change (e.g. when clicking the machine reconnect button)
• improve lookup: strip spaces from lookup, improve and fix display (correctly show translations containing HTML markup)
• improve suggestions: only suggest on new/modified text, rework word splitting (e.g. if “full-release” is entered, suggestions for “release” will be shown too)
• improve keymap configuration widget to be easier to use
• add support for creating new dictionaries

Main Dictionary

• cleanup main dictionary: remove legacy Eclipse TPHR-BG entries, remove redundant entries
• dictionary has some additions and changes thanks to community feedback from issue 400, significant changes are outlined here.

Linux

• the AppImage can now be installed/uninstalled
• drop the need for wmctrl

Mac

• don’t suppress keyup events created by Plover, which improves compatibility with some applications when using a Keyboard as a steno machine.

Other

• keyboard: fix a number of edge cases / bugs
• rework keymap configuration widget
• formatting rework: consistent output with both space placement settings, better handling retro-case commands

Development

• drop Python 2 support
• update Python version to 3.6
• update PyQt5 version to latest LTS: 5.9
• export utils as plover_build_utils so it’s available for plugins development

Installation Guide