gWaei, Japanese Dictionary for GNOME Files

This has been another release with more work on the backend than cosmetic changes. The cosmetic changes that are making an appearance have to do with configurability. You can now turn off search-as-you-type which will make the search button in the search toolbar reappear. The statusbar can also be turned on like the old 1.5.x series. The kanji tooltip is now more intelligently placed when it is off the screen on the bottom or left sides.

For the backend the dependancies have changed. gWaei now requires gtk+-3.2 to run (along with the dbus dependencies that come with it.) waei avoids requiring dbus by sticking to particular functions. libunique is no longer required and mingw32 is now detected automatically. This all means that the only configure option that remains is --without-gnome for only compiling libwaei and waei. gWaei will now give a descriptive error if you do not have the libwaei preference schemas installed instead of failing silently. gsettings-desktop-schemas is required for gWaei to run.

The backend has been rewritten to more fully utilize the gtk object framework. The windows now extend GtkWindow which allows passing them directly in signals. The number of lines in each dictionary is no longer counted at startup which should make the program start much quicker and be easier on I/O. Because of how the backend search was rewritten, the threshold for the max results that gWaei can display has been increased.

Sorry Windows users. Windows support is put on hold again until gtk3 3.4 because the library just isn't there yet. Furthermore, the dbus port to windows is only just starting to mature. By then hopefully the MSWindows theme will be updated for gtk3, too.