What's new in gWaei 3.6.2
Jan 3, 2013
- There are various Windows compilation fixes.
- Morphology was made less obtrusive because it is a bit greedy.
- There are fixes for a segfault in waei if no dictionaries are installed and a search is carried out.
- There are fixes to localization.
New in gWaei 3.4.3 (Apr 17, 2012)
- This version fixes display of kanjipad (or at least improves it), fixes problems with searches from waei, fixes localizations of some texts, and removes/disables deprecated directives.
New in gWaei 3.4.2 (Apr 2, 2012)
- It installs libwaei headers, increases the libwaei version number, fixes the order in which dictionaries are installed, no longer crashes when a mecab dictionary is not installed, fixes handling of a gtk bug not showing installable dictionaries, and adds zlib to configure.ac.
New in gWaei 3.4.1 (Mar 22, 2012)
- This version adds various fixes and polish improvements, case-insensitive flashcard answers, the ability to enter katakana/hiragana answers as romaji, ignoring of punctuation and spaces, a dependency move from enchant to hunspell in preparation for an architecture change, direct use of zlib instead of piping data through gzip, and a number of fixes for win32.
- All users need to update their package dependencies.
New in gWaei 3.2.0 Beta 1 (Nov 21, 2011)
- gWaei now requires GTK+ 3.2.
- The Windows have been rewritten to extend GtkWindow instead of just containing a GtkWindow.
- libunique is no longer a dependency.
- GtkApplication from GTK+ is now used instead.
- The program now handles large amounts of results better and no longer truncates them as early.
- Dictionary lines are no longer counted on startup, which makes it much quicker. MinGW is now automatically detected instead of requiring an option during configure.
- Unfortunately, it is still not supported as GTK+ 3 and D-Bus don't run well on Windows yet.
New in gWaei 3.0.2 (Jul 19, 2011)
- In 3.0.1 there was a bug that would make gWaei freeze from time to time due to some thread locking, which is the reason for this rushed version.
- Also, a warning that appeared when clicking a lot of Kanji in the main results pane was fixed. With any luck, the 3.0.x series is now stable.
New in gWaei 3.0.1 (Jul 19, 2011)
- Multiple bugs were fixed.
- Installing the Kanji dictionary now works.
- The print preview was fixed.
- The primary toolbar style is now fixed for button hovering.
- Code was added to make sure that the progress bar clears when a search is canceled.
New in gWaei 1.5.2 (Jan 10, 2011)
- Bugfix release. Searches when using & in the query work again instead of being truncated as you type. The interface is now more responsive when a search is carried out by edits to thread locking. Exact matching for the console version of gWaei was readded because it is truly needed there since most consoles scroll passed the most useful results. The sandboxing issue caused by gtk-update-icon-cache for the package maintainers was fixed. The README has been updated as it was woefully out of date.
New in gWaei 1.5.1 (Dec 16, 2010)
- Crashes when &, |, or, ( are typed into the query are now fixed.
- Broken thread locking code was corrected, which fixed some random crashing.
New in gWaei 1.5.0 (Nov 26, 2010)
- The search thread was fixed so it no longer runs in a timer, but in another thread.
- GConf has been dropped for GSettings.
- The program compiles with the GTK_DEPRICATED_DISABLE flag on.
- The kanjisidebar is now a tooltip. There has been a bit of scaling back on the interface.
- Searches now update dynamically as you type.
New in gWaei 1.4.2 (Sep 20, 2010)
- A number of bug fixes. Crasher when rapidly switching radical search tool buttons has been fixed. Fixed the save menu so it works again. Better search results with the Kanji dictionary. Various other fixes listed on git. The line of kanji at the top of the kanji dictionary search has been removed for performance issues. May make a return in a better form in the future.
New in gWaei 1.4.1 (Jul 4, 2010)
- Most notable is how the kanjipad tool would become unusable when reopening it after closing it using the close button in the window decorations.
- A few elements have a bit more polish added to improve usability.
New in gWaei 1.4.0 (May 11, 2010)
- A fair amount more background reworking has went into this release, so please submit a bug report if you have a problem. I will release 1.4.x releases as needed.
- The settings dialog has been cleaned up and shrunk in size, the radical search tool has been reworked to load faster and be easier to maintain (and has tooltips!), the Kanjipad tool now uses Cairo for drawing meaning the lines are nicely anti-aliased. The no results page has been reworked to allow you to search alternatively in another dictionary, or search for the unfound word online. Right clicking a word allows you similar options and opens the search in a new tab.
- The command line has received some love. The install tool was broken in the 1.3.x series and has seen improvements such as a download percent showing progress.
- Configure for making the program mas been updated to allow building without libsexy, libunique and curses. Unfortunately, building with libsexy and libunique means a lot of the cflags get duplicated. If there is someone who can help with that...?
- I hope everyone enjoys the release!
New in gWaei 1.3.1 (May 10, 2010)
- Bugfixes. With filesystems such as ext4 where changes aren't written immediately to the disk, the dictionary file becomes corrupt on install and a search is run before quitting. 1.2.3 contains this fix backported. 1.4.0 should be arriving this week.
New in gWaei 1.3.0 (Mar 20, 2010)
- Now supports tabs. A lot of code rewritten. New ncurses interface for the console version. Many bug fixes. Simpler preferences dialog.
New in gWaei 1.2.0 (Oct 26, 2009)
- The results have been worked to have better, easier to skim formatting. New German, French, and Spanish dictionaries have been added. The dictionaries are now user organizable. The radicals in the Radical search tool now grey out when certain combinations do not return any kanji. Other general improvements to make the program easier to use and remove bugs. Packagers, please read my messages to you in the README.
New in gWaei 1.1 (Oct 10, 2009)
- A bunch of changes made it into the program. Much of the main interface has been rethought out. Bugs squashed, code reworked. Much of the program has been documented using doxygen, a new IRC help channel setup, and links to the homepage from the program.
- This release requires Gnome 2.26 level dependencies. This would be about Fedora 11 or Ubuntu 9 level.
New in gWaei 1.0.1 (Sep 27, 2009)
- Fixed bug where "Ningen" was changed to "ninken" in hiragana. Edits to rpm building script, gnome-doc-utils no longer required for build of only console version.
New in gWaei 1.0 (Jun 14, 2009)
- Offical 1.0 release! The 1.0 series will continue and stay stable for people who just want to get things done (TM). 1.1 will come when/if it is needed.
New in gWaei 1.0 RC1 (May 28, 2009)
- There were some small tweaks to the progam's code to get it to compile under Windows correctly. There was also a small memory leak when opening the help menu. This will be the last revision before 1.0!
New in gWaei 1.0 Beta 3 (May 17, 2009)
- Small changes. Radicals have been reordered and some holes filled. The number separators for the radicals have been made red to make them more visible. RPM building has been slightly reworked. Libgnome is no longer a dependency.
New in gWaei 1.0 Beta 2 (May 4, 2009)
- Undid a change that broke turning off spellcheck when I was trying to fix the Ubuntu 9 crasher.
- Fixed a misspell in the preferences in Japanese.
- Also a bug in the URL for installing the radicals dictionary has also been fixed.
- The gconf abstraction layer has also been made more fault resistant for strings.
New in gWaei 1.0 Beta 1 (Apr 26, 2009)
- A minor buffer overflow was fixed that was adversly affecting Ubuntu 9 users. It caused gWaei to crash on Ubuntu 9 when running inputting japanese.A bunch more Windows compatibility fixes have been done. I was close to getting it to compile, but I am still lost on linking the Curl libraries (anyone have any clue?) When compiled without which the gnome configure flag turned off, gconf is no longer a dependancy.
New in gWaei 0.15.4 (Mar 30, 2009)
- Another small update. I am still attempting to approach a 1.0 release. The program should compile on Mac OS X again thanks to a user submitted fix. Also, the radicals search tool has been worked to be smaller and some of the missing kanji has been added.
New in gWaei 0.15.3 (Mar 15, 2009)
- Bugfix release from 0.15.2. The windows configure flag was backwards which lead to many people buliding without gconf support in. This is a bad bad thing because gWaei gets the install URLs through the gconf preferences. (The windows build is still experimental only!)
New in gWaei 0.15.1 (Mar 2, 2009)
- This should fix the issue some people were having doing searches that contained kanji.
- Other changes include gconf being abstracted out. It is possible to compile the program without gconf available...though it isn't recommended. Also, the deb installs and uninstalls now exit cleanly with no errors.
- Last, an updated Italian translation has now been added! (Thanks Fabrizio!)
New in gWaei 0.15.0 (Feb 28, 2009)
- The newest version of gWaei has finally arrived! This version took so long because it was edging on being a total rewrite. Many of the dangling variables that I had floating around are now neatly put away into C structs.
- On the front end, there is a link saying "Where can I get other dictionaries?" This is meant to help people find other dictionaries that may work with gwaei.
- Last, and the most interesting, gtk support is now OPTIONAL in gWaei. You can access most of the program's features through the terminal now! The program creates a symbalic link called waei on installation that can be used to access all of this console goodness.
New in gWaei 0.14.0 (Jan 27, 2009)
- New features! The preferences dialog has received an options boost. There is a new advanced tab. On of the most interesting new options is the ability to adjust the highlight colors.
- The search engine has been upgraded a bit. Bugs fixed, works better with NetBSD, does better sorting of Japanese searches.
- Last, the japanese locale requirements have been loosened. They aren't as important as I had once thought. Though it is nice because it makes gtk anti-alias the Japanese text on my systems.
New in gWaei 0.13.2 (Jan 19, 2009)
- This is a another bugfix release. It looks like I didn't fix the startup problem some users experienced last time. This time I managed to get some help testing and the problem should actually be gone. I'm finally starting to understand how the setlocale command works, which helps a lot. The dictionary terminology gossary has been separated out from the general help section. It was just different enough not to fit in. It now has it's own menuitem in the Help menu.
New in gWaei 0.13.1 (Jan 18, 2009)
- Bugfix release: The most noteworthy of which was an infinitely loop on startup that some computer encountered. (It it still is not fixed, someone please email me.) There was a crasher when attempting to print only one highlighted line in the results. Fixed a crasher when users would go back/forward after switching dictionaries. There have been a few minor features added as well. alt-left and alt-right will go back and forward in the search history much like a web browser. Shift-tab will cycle backwards through the dictionaries.
New in gWaei 0.13.0 (Jan 13, 2009)
- There is a new libsexy dependency that allows spell checking in the search entry.
- The documentation has had a large overhaul.
- The help manual is a bit more complete, and the README gives better install directions.
- The grey highlighting was a bad idea in 0.12.0.
- A bug where some users could not type into the search entry was fixed.
- This is the first version to have PPC RPM and deb packages.
New in gWaei 0.12.0 (Jan 10, 2009)
- Testing has gone into making sure that NetBSD and Fedora work.
- Even though libgnomeui was dropped as a dependency, it was not removed from configure.ac, meaning the program was still compiling against it until now.
- There is rsync functionality for updating most of the installed dictionaries. This is much easier on the servers than reinstalling the dictionary completely.
- An Italian localization has been added.
- The rest of the Settings dialog has been translated into Japanese.
New in gWaei 0.11.0 (Jan 4, 2009)
- Some of the nice changes of this release are some memory leak fixes, an improved "No results found" screen, and automatic searching for hiragana/katakana versions of results when possible. Other things are improvements in the rpm and deb generation. Doing a distcheck on the tarball no longer requires root privelages. In general, the install process was made more portable.
New in gWaei 0.10.0 (Dec 5, 2008)
- A lot of usability tweaks and bug fixes went into this release. I was trying to get the results more readable, which I think I accomplished. There are a few new interface elements as well such as the "Show less relevant results" checkbox in the view menu.
- Under the hood, the build system has been massively revamped. The names are much more standard that it spits out and the program actually creates the rpms from scratch instead converted debs. Gconf schema installation is now done during install instead of on first run. This is part of the reason why I had to redo the install procedure and create true rpms.
New in gWaei 0.9.1 (Dec 1, 2008)
- Slightly nicer toolbar icons for Boundary, Not Boundary, and Unknown.
- added the "And" and "Or" options to the insert menu
- Finished adding the final translations for the main window and Kanjipad window for Japanese
- Fixed a bug where I dereferenced gconf too many times, making toggling the font size and toolbar show impossible from then on.
- No more dependency on libgnomeui
- slightly larger default font size (10pt->12pt)
- Added a separator for less relevant results and the number of relevant results are now shown.
- The search algorithm is a little more accurate and a little more stream lined.
- Deb and RPM creations has been moved from the external scripts into the makefile. The basic steps are ./configure make deb or ./configure make rpm simple ain't it?
New in gWaei 0.9.0 (Nov 30, 2008)
- This release brings compatibility to locales other than Ja_JP.UTF-8. Particularly in C locales the program had a tendency to crash. This hopefully fixes the last of the major bugs keeping most people from trying gWaei out.
- Oher major changes include Kanjipad integration. Clicking on of the kanji characters will automatically copy it into the search input bar.
- The Install window now lets you choose different install sources than the default source. This makes it possible to save an edict file and install it without an internet connection.
New in gWaei 0.8.2-1 (Nov 26, 2008)
- This is a major bug fix release. I had a user tell me they couldn't install the debs I released so I did some investigating. I actually used an Ubuntu environment to make the deb file so it DOES work now. Also there were a number of bugs that popped up that I had missed on the conversion to the automake tools.
New in gWaei 0.8.1 (Nov 24, 2008)
- This is a small bugfix release. The changes do not effect people installing using the source code. Some of the install dependencies for the rpm and deb have been simplified so they cause less problems for users.
New in gWaei 0.8.0 (Nov 24, 2008)
- The build system now uses automake.
- There have also been a number of bugfixes (including crashers).
- The toolbar is now hidden by default.
- History search items now appear in the history menu.
- The "Most Relevant results" and "Other results" headers have been removed from the results pane.
- The results are still organized in that fashion, but they are now easier to read without the blaring red text.
- The search algorithm has been tweaked some more.
New in gWaei 0.7 (Nov 19, 2008)
- Searches are now about twice as fast.
- There is a new application icon.
- You can search for hiragana words in kanji searches now.
- The Japanese translation and template po are reworked.
- The save label has been changed to Append.
- gwaei can print multiple pages now, and it adds a bit of formatting to them.
- Help has been handed off to gnome_help.
- A kanji lookup won't halt your results pane search.
- There are middle term install states for the settings dialog.
- This release saves the font size.
- Ctrl-w now closes all windows.
New in gWaei 0.6.1 (Nov 17, 2008)
- I fixed a small crasher with the radical search tool. Also, this is the first version to be released with both rpm and deb versions.