[Kbabel] [kde-announce]KBabel 1.2

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Hi!

After a rather long time, here comes a new version of KBabel. KBabel is a 
powerfull, easy to use editor for localization files (GNU gettext, Qt
Linguist).

There are substantial improvements over KBabel 1.1. The most important ones 
are:
- support for GNU gettext plural forms
- support for multiple file formats using plugins
- support for validation/modification tools as plugins
- CVS support in Catalog Manager
- autosave
- wordwrapping

For a complete list of new features and improvements, see the changelog below.

We would like to hear your opinions, comments etc. You can reach us
at kbabel at mail.kde.org or you can use KDE bugzilla http://bugs.kde.org.

Homepage: http://i18n.kde.org/tools/kbabel
Download: ftp://i18n.kde.org/tools/kbabel/kbabel-1.2.tar.bz2

Requirements:
- Qt version 3.1
- KDE libs version 3.1
- Berkeley Database IV is recommended

Enjoy!

The KBabel team


Changes 1.2:
- GNU argument reordering is implemented, #48971 (Stanislav Visnovsky)
- internal structures speedup (Stanislav Visnovsky)
- word wrapping enabled, fix #53832 (elonen at iki.fi)
- spellcheck from the current message to the end of file, wishlist #50937 
(Marco Wegner)
- mark/unmark files in catalog manager using wildcards, wishlist #48840 (Marco 
- 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) - can produce
  crashes because of a bug in kdelibs 3.1.3.
- 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)
- GNU gettext plural forms (Stanislav Visnovsky)
- Msgstr2plural - copy single text into a plural form (Stanislav Visnovsky)
- Validation tools are plugins now - integration in Catalog Manager as well 
(Stanislav Visnovsky)
- Non-breaking space is shown differently (Stanislav Visnovsky)
- Import/export plugin framework to load/save files. (Stanislav Visnovsky)
- It is not possible to edit raw header anymore (Stanislav Visnovsky)
- Character selection tool (Stanislav Visnovsky)
- CVS support in Catalog Manager (Marco Wegner)
- Autosave (Marco Wegner)
- a tool to check for translations with only whitespace (Dwayne Bailey)
- a tool for translations that are not translated (Dwayne Bailey)
- a tool to highlight translations that are too short or too long (Dwayne 
Bailey)

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