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Release Name: klavaro-1.1.8

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Changes: 2008-12-07 Felipe Castro (-) <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br>; Petr Machata (>) * Release 1.1.8: Added: - Localization for Vietnamese; - Localization for Bangla/Bengali; Changed: - Using 'libcurl' instead of 'wget' and 'ftp-upload' (simpler and faster); Fixed: - Enabling font selection also at the introduction of any tutor module; - Avoid duplication of users in the contest rankings; - Re-enabled logging the progress for the velocity module; - Unlimiting word lenght for the velocity module; > Improved loading dictionaries for the velocity module; > Fixed loading intro texts to enable long UTF-8 files; 2008-10-16 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * Another release, 1.1.7: Added: - Localization support for United Kingdom and specific Dvorak layout "dvorak_uk"; - Logging the keyboard layout name to the fluidness contest. - Delay that keeps the blinking cursor on, at each keypress; Fixed: - Now the program recognizes any 'en_XX' locales at the first running and assigns 'C' to it. - Some orthographics corrected. Changed: - Tutor comments about performance try to be less rude. - Least number of chars to enter the fluidness rankings now is 500. 2008-09-20 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * Another release, 1.1.6: Added: - Urdu localization support. Fixed: - German translation was updated and completed. - Long-hifen chars in the German fluidness texts were substituted by normal ones. - Very long paragraphs in fluidness exercises was crashing (now the limit increased to 9000 bytes/paragraph). - Avoiding capitalization of lower case accented letters for some keyboards (e.g. French). Changed: - The font for informative instructions are now the same as those configured for the tutor lessons. - Blinking color of cursor now is black foreground over light yellow background and its frequency is slower. - Scrolling is being anticipated by one line, before reaching the bottom of tutor window. - Simpler number generation in the adaptability challenges. 2008-09-04 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * Another release, 1.1.5: Updated: - French translation. Added: - Japanese keyboard layout: "qwerty_jp". - Debug code for unreadable .ksc files. 2008-08-17 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * Another release, 1.1.4: Fixed: - Eliminated dependence on the utility "dos2unix". Added: - man-file to klavaro_helper. 2008-08-10 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * Another release, 1.1.3: Changed: - Avoid so many records per user in the rankings. 2008-07-25 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * Another release, 1.1.2: Fixed: - Expanded informations about scoring was messed up when not using the "C" locale. - In the source code, the "ifdefs" with "G_UNIX_OS" were corrected to "G_OS_UNIX". - Try hard to make the score files writable for all users. - Updated translation: Hungarian. Added: - Expanded the drag and drop capability: now it's possible to drop also text files, as icons from some file managers (tested with Konqueror). 2008-06-28 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * Another release, 1.1.1: Fixed: - Expanded informations about scoring was messed up when using the C locale. Now the language code is shown as 'en' instead of simply 'C'. - It wasn't changing the locale of the Top 10 window when requested from the main menu dialog. - Not installing out of a ROOT environment. - Not installing with MINGW32 in Windows. 2008-06-18 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * Another release, 1.1.0: Fixed: - Not compiling in Windows. - Updated translations: German and Czech. 2008-06-14 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * Another release, 1.0.9: Fixed: - Unreliable popup of the dialog "Other" (velocity / fluidness) was not working for some window managers or in the case when there were many customized files listed. Removed: - Some unusual keybord layouts: "qwerty_br_abnt0", "alphagrip_br". Changed: - The default keyboard layout "dvorak_br" was renamed to "dvorak_br_nativo". - Portuguese paragraphs for fluidness exercises. Added: - Scoring and ranking (Top 10) for the fluidness exercises. - Online contest for Top 10 ranking (only for Linux). 2008-05-27 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * Another release, 1.0.8: Fixed: - Substituted long hyphen chars not typable in hungarian texts of fluidness exercises. Changed: - Removed "debian" directory from tarball distribution file. Added: - Copy a text from extern (Ctrl-C) and paste it (Ctrl-V) as custom velocity and fluidness exercises. Also drag and drop was implemented. - May start directly on any of the 4 modules: basic, adapt, velo or fluid; - GTK+ icons for various buttons. - Specific layout for United Kingdom: "qwerty_uk.kbd". 2008-01-21 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * Another release, 1.0.7: Added: - Russian translation. 2008-01-03 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * Another release, 1.0.6: Changed: - Esperanto po-file changed to eo.po, instead of eo_XX.po Fixed: - Segmentation fault ocurred in fluidness exercises for French and Hungarian translations. - French corrections in velocity and fluidness exercises, using simple substitutors for 'œ' (oe), '«' (") and '’' ('). - A litte bit of coding clean-up, substituting functions 'sprintf' by 'g_strdup_printf'. 2007-11-29 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * Another release, 1.0.5: Changed: - Spanish translation was corrected. - Esperanto translation was corrected. 2007-08-16 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * Another release, 1.0.4: Added: - Spanish translation was completed. Maybe there are still many errors... - AZERTY keyboard layout file for French ibook: "azerty_fr_ibook". - Alphagrip layout file allows to practice basic lessons with that new kind of input device: "alphagrip5". Changed: - Now, when the 50th basic lesson is accomplished, the tutor remains on it, not reseting automatically to lesson 1. - Esperanto locale code is now eo_XX instead of eo_EO. Fixed: - Spaces in filenames of custom lessons prevented points to be plotted in the progress charts. - When successfully accomplishing a basic lesson, the progress charts showed the next lesson, not the just finished one. - The text foreground of the tutor window was not fixed as black, then it almost disappeared when a dark theme was used for the system's interface. 2007-05-02 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * 4rd stable release, 1.0.3: Added: - Dutch translation, both Netherlands and Belgium variants. - Belgian keyboard layout: "azerty_be" - Turkish keyboard layouts: "dvorak_tr_F" and "qwerty_tr". Changed: - The preferences file now is "preferences.ini", instead of "preferences.desktop". For a global set, use from now on "klavaro_preferences.ini" at "/etc". - Brazilian keyboard: "dvorak_br" now conforms to the current native brazilian layout. Fixed: - Typo errors in English and Czech. - Size limit for loading personal text files in velocity and fluidness exercises, avoiding program freezings and/or segmentation faults. - Interpretation of environmental variable LANGUAGE. - General code clean-up. 2007-03-18 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * 3rd stable release, 1.0.2: Added: - 13th key in the second row, so that traditional US-keyboard using it can be correctly configured for the basic lessons. - Configurable basic lessons, for accented chars, AltGr simbols, etc. - Configurable fluidness exercises, by enabling to change the number of paragraphs. - The "debian" subdir in the source code distribution. Fixed: - Hazard calculation malfunction in fluidness results. 2007-01-13 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * 2nd stable release, 1.0.1: Added: - Spanish translation. Completed: - French translation. Changed: - Images of the floating hands for finger tips in the basic course. 2006-10-12 Felipe Castro <emejlo-klavaro@yahoo.com.br> * 1st stable release, 1.0.0: Added: - Polish translation.