KBabel Change Log

Version 1.10.1

• Bug fix release with KDE 3.4.1

Version 1.10

• XLIFF support (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• word count tool (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• projects UI enhancements - recent projects, etc (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• use KConfigXT for projects
• Fixed bugs: #91989, #92537, #89710, #88293, #91900

Version 1.9.1

• Fixed number of bugs from 1.9, e.g., crash in spellcheck-on-the-fly (Stanislav Visnovsky)

Version 1.9

• project manager implemented (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• support for cvs diff (Bram Schoenmakers)
• support for detachable views (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• it's possible to sort on marked items (Bram Schoenmakers)
• only modified files get committed when doing cvs commit in a directory (Bram S

Version 1.3

• Fixed bugs: #63603, #64413
• allow to set "Plural-Forms" header (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• dictionary plugin interface overhauled to include more information (e.g. plural forms) (Andrea Rizzi, Stanislav Visnovsky)
• punctuation validation tool (Stanislav Visnovsky)

Version 1.2

• implemented rough translation using dictionary settings (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• diff is shown correctly for word wrapped text (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• GNU argument reordering is implemented, #48971 (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• Fixed bugs: #62449, crash on open in a new window

Version 1.2beta2

• Next tag selection using Ctrl+/Ctrl-, wishlist #51641 (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• Enable/disable columns in Catalog Manager, wishlist #52949 (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• Dictionary modules can be temporarily reconfigured for rough translation (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• On-the-fly spellchecking (Lukas Tinkl, Stanislav Visnovsky)
• Validation errors in Catalog manager can be ignored for next validation (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• Mark selection using regexps/wildcards (Marco Wegner)
• Option to ignore %n in argument checks (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• Diff mode to find difference against msgstr (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• Better support for Translation Project robot, #57642 (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• Port to Berkeley Database IV (Stephan Kulow, Stanislav Visnovsky)
• Fixed bugs: #53836, #58323, #57398

Version 1.2beta1

• GNU gettext plural forms by Stanislav Visnovsky
• Msgstr2plural - copy single text into a plural form by Stanislav Visnovsky
• Validation tools are plugins now - integration in Catalog Manager as well by Stanislav Visnovsky
• Non-breaking space is shown differently by Stanislav Visnovsky
• Import/export plugin framework to load/save files by Stanislav Visnovsky
• Ported GNU gettext load/save to the new plugin framework by Stanislav Visnovsky
• Qt Linguist load/save plugins by Marco Wegner
• It is not possible to edit raw header anymore by Stanislav Visnovsky
• Character selection tool by Stanislav Visnovsky
• CVS support in Catalog Manager by Marco Wegner
• KBabelDict module lookup using standard KDE KTrader
• Autosave feature by Marco Wegner
• DataTool to check for translations with only whitespace by Dwayne Bailey

Version 1.1

• Bookmarks by Marco Wegner
• Catalog Manager caching by Stefan Asserhall
• Highlighting rewrite by Marco Wegner
• Ressurection of Delete in Catalog Manager
• Catalog Manager can toggle mark using mouse (click in the column)
• Fix spellchecking for Maltese
• Support for TMX-based external database

Version 1.0.2

• Improved support for GNU TP robot (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• Automatic upgrade of translation database from Berkeley Database II to IV (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• Entities can contain dots

Version 1.0.1

• Splash screen can be clicked on and closed (Stanislav Visnovsky)
• Support for Berkeley Database IV (Stephan Kulow)

Version 1.0

• Mail PO files from Catalog Manager (thanks to Marco Wegner)
• Spellchecker for multiple files bug fixes
• Highlighting bug fixes

Version 1.0 beta2

• Rough translation in catalog manager
• Alt+123 feature to type a character by its code
• Perform all checks at once (KBabel)
• KFile plugin (c) Marco Wegner <dubbleu@web.de>
• Bug fixes

Version 1.0 beta1

• Automatic update of PO header comment
• Automatic update of Project-Id-Version
• Possibility to specify localized translator name
• Show source code
• Argument support similar to tags
• Editing of tag regular expressions
• Validation & highlighting of XML
• Tag structure tool added
• KDE specifics added to rough translation (e.g. only add a new translator in TRANSLATORS_..)
• Mail PO-file
• Save special (the settings can be changed for the particular save)
• Concept of "package" visually introduced (used in source code tool, dictionaries, ...)
• Force update in Catalog Manager
• Spellchecking in more files
• Load/Save markings in Catalog Manager
• Navigation bar in Catalog Manager
• Bug fixes

Version 0.9.6

• Port to KDE3/Qt3. This version cannot be compiled with older versions of the libraries.
• Catalog Manager is standalone application now. This improves stability and performance.
• Find/Replace in multiple files (Catalog Manager) + corresponding new functions in DCOP interface.
• Fuzzy flag can be toggled now (not only unset)
• Obsolete entries in PO files are not lost anymore
• Timezone can be specified as offset (e.g. +0100)
• Fixed validation of context info, equations
• Fixed "slow KBabel" bug

Version 0.9.5

• Workaround for bug which caused an unfinite loop in dbsearchengine

Version 0.9.4

• Only use charset of the file, if a matching font is installed.
• Don't stop reading files when encoding is faulty.

Version 0.9.3

• KBabel now sets the charset for displaying characters according to the encoding of the edited file.

Version 0.9.2

• rudimentary support for files with plural forms introduced by gettext 0.10.36 was implemented. This means reading and writing and editing singular forms only.

Version 0.9.1

• added clever editing feature which makes editing more comfortable
• some improvements in settings for the test of plural forms
• quite a lot of spelling and grammar corrections in messages

Version 0.9

• A new diff feature was added, which allows to diff with messages in the translation database or in other po files.
• KBabel now prevents opening of the same file more than once.
• Possibility to open a file from a searchresult and to go directly to the given msgid was added.
• A test for KDE specific plural form was added.
• The speed of the file parser has been improved.
• Added possibility to search also in translations.
• New icons for KBabel and KBabelDict and new and improved toolbar icons.
• Small structure improvement in preferences dialog.
• Storing of ignored words in spell check was fixed.
• Some smaller bug fixes.

Version 0.8

• A new plugin framework for dictionaries was implemented
• Added a "rough translation" function, that uses the available dictionaries for making suggestions for translations
• Added support for easy insertion of tags and URLs
• Support for wheelmice was added

Version 0.7.1

• A new option was added to allow saving files in the same encoding as they were read in
• Copy now copies also from context view and search results

Version 0.7

• Added spell check capability
• some bugfixes

Version 0.6

• Added four methods for checking consistency of the messages
  • Check, that printf and Qt arguments are the same in msgid and msgstr
  • Check, that keyboard accelerators exists in msgstr if there is one in msgid
  • Check, that context information for message (as used in KDE) is not translated
  • Check, that left side of a equation is the same in msgid and msgstr. This is useful when editing KDE's desktop.po files
• Some smaller improvements like adding keyboard shortcuts, etc.
• Some bug fixes

Version 0.5.4

• Catalogmanager now displays in icons, when files in a directory need work. Also now the icons do not display missing templates, when no template directory is given.
• Major bugfix with the catalogmanager not updating files, when template was deleted or added
• Fixed the catalog manager crash, when no template directory was given.

Version 0.5.3

• added first version of documentation by Claudiu Costin
• bugfixes and some cleanups

Version 0.5.2

• bugfixes

Version 0.5.1

• KBabel is now more liberate in parsing files. Questionable entries are then accessible with go->next error
• some bugfixes

Version 0.5

• undo/redo
• find & replace
• added function to copy msgid to msgstr
• added function to copy search result to msgstr (thanks to Hans Petter Bieker)
• KBabel now uses the XML-GUI feature of KDE 2
• many bug fixes and smaller enhancements
• package now contains a little commandline tool "extractmsg" from Stephan Kulow to extract translations from po-files

Version 0.4

• syntax highlighting
• added several methods to "see" whitespace
• configurable font for message editors
• back and forward function
• when saving, non existing directories are created
• Catalog Manager now displays progress in reading file information
• made led colors configurable
• fixed bug with geometry managment in preferences dialog
• some other bugfixes

Version 0.3.3

• configurable format of date and time in header
• now using getExistingDirectory for choosing a directory
• now using standard KDialogBase

Version 0.3.2

• some changes due to api changes in kdelibs
• partly fixed layout problem in the preferences dialog
• fixed bug in commands editor for catalog manager

Version 0.3.1

• some bugfixes
• added support for writing in utf8 and detecting used charset when reading

Version 0.3

• full featured catalog manager implemented
• syntax checking with msgfmt implemented

Version 0.2

• searching in compendium and auxiliary implemented
• some bugfixes
• parsing of files rewritten
• cleaner classes
• added whatsthis help

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