What's new in Aard Dictionary 0.9.3-1
Apr 2, 2012
- Fix opening read-only dictionary files.
New in Aard Dictionary 0.9.1-1 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Improve full screen mode: show only article tabs, hide everything else.
- Update Wikipedia style so that article content has some margin around it, like in Aard style.
- Make application shortcuts work regardless of whether menubar or toolbar are visible. This was affecting Maemo users since menubar is not displayed there and toolbar doesn’t have all actions and can be turned off.
- Fix article CSS to not hide content of pre elements
- Control+,/Ctrl+. for previous/next article no longer prints ,/. when in lookup or find input field and corresponding action is disabled
- Show status message in the middle of tab widget for lookup in progress and when lookup didn’t yield any results
- Load user-defined article style (CSS) from $HOME/.aarddict/user.css.
- Use Ctrl+Shift+F instead of F11 as shortcut for full screen toggle on Mac.
New in Aard Dictionary 0.9.0 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Implement ability to find text in article (Article ‣ Find...).
- Implement ability to select aticle text font when not using Wikipedia style (issue #7)
- Add menu Edit with new action to look up currently selected text (Edit ‣ Lookup) and standard editing actions applied to currently focused widget (Lookup box, Find or article view).
- Articles found by following a redirect now show redirect info at the top.
- Articles are now loaded only when their tab is selected.
- Improve history: remember preferred dictionaries order, remember scroll position of recent articles.
- Add basic support for inter-wiki links (see Limitations).
- Replace Lookup Box action button inside lookup box with a Clear button, make it look better.
- Revise application state and settings persistence implementation to better support new features (improved history, customizable article font). State saved by 0.8.0 is ignored.
- Rearrange menus, add new shortcuts.
- Remove support for aar-JSON.
New in Aard Dictionary 0.8.0 (Nov 18, 2010)
- UI rewritten in PyQt/Qt.
- Customizable UI components layout.
- Improve keyboard navigation.
- Improve article rendering.
- Add toolbar.
- Use single word completion list instead of word list per language, show best match at the top.
- In word list group similar titles together (titles that differ only in case or accented characters except for one and two-letter titles).
- Render articles in both old JSON-based format (.aar dictionaries) and HTML (.html.aar dictionaries).
- Switch between Aard Dictionary article visual style with customizable colors and Wikipedia Monobook style.
- Implement Article ‣ Save action: saves article to HTML file.
- Implement Dictionary ‣ Add Directory...: adds directory to be scanned for dictionaries on application start, opens all dictionaries found (non-recursive).
- Display list of language link languages in dictionary info dialog.
- Build Mac OS X application bundle.
New in Aard Dictionary 0.7.6.1 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Fix Open... to work in both Maemo 4 and Maemo 5
New in Aard Dictionary 0.7.6 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Include license, documentation, icons and desktop files in source distribution generated by setup.py.
- Added ability to open online Wikipedia article in a browser (Navigate ‣ Online Article) and to copy article URL (Dictionary ‣ Copy ‣ Article URL).
- Open all volumes of the same dictionary when one volume is open if other volumes are in the same directory.
- Fixed auto selecting article from most recently used dictionary (this didn’t always work with multi volume dictionaries since volume id was used instead of dictionary id).
- Remove Control-f key binding for history forward and Control-b for history back in Hildon UI, use Shift-Back and Back instead.
- Windows version now uses Python 2.6.
- Windows installer updated: by default Aard Dictionary now goes into Aard Dictionary group, shortcuts to web site, forum, and uninstaller are created.
New in Aard Dictionary 0.7.5 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Added command line option to print dictionary metadata.
- Language tabs scroll when dictionaries in many languages are open.
- Display Wikipedia language code in article tab title.
- When article found in multiple dictionaries select tab with article from most recently used dictionary (issue #1).
- Added ability to verify dictionary data integrity: Dictionary ‣ Verify.
- Fixed redirects: some redirects previously were resolving incorrectly because weak string matching (base characters only) was used.
- Added ability to select string matching strength: Dictionary ‣ Match.
- Render previously ignored dd tag often used in Wikipedia articles in serif italic font.
- Implemented links to article sections (issue #6).
- Highlight current item in word lookup history dropdown list.
- Better lookup history navigation: previously if link followed was already in history that history item whould be activated resulting in confusing result of subsequent Back or Forward actions.
- Link sensitivity tweaks to reduce unintended clicks when finger scrolling articles on tablet.
- Fixed handling of articles with multiple tables in same position (resulted in application crash on Windows).
- Properly limit matched word list for multivolume dictionaries.
- Python 2.5 .deb is now installable on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
New in Aard Dictionary 0.7.4 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Customizable table rows background
- Added Russian translation
New in Aard Dictionary 0.7.3 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Customizable link colors (issue #2)
- Updated default link colors (issue #2)
- +/- keys on N800/N810 change article text size (issue #3)
- Article finger scrolling and link sensitivity tweaks
New in Aard Dictionary 0.7.2 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Much faster word navigation (issue #4)
- Fixed memory leak (issue #4)
- Visual feedback when link clicked
New in Aard Dictionary 0.7.1 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Better redirects.
- Better dictionary information display in info dialog and window title.
- Added Lookup Box action - move focus to word input field and select it’s content (bound to Ctrl+L).
- Place cursor at the beginning of article text buffer - helps make Maemo bug 2469 less annoying (scrolling to cursor on every text view size change).
- Fixed glitch in articles tabs display (event box for articles tab labels wasn’t invisible, looked bad on Maemo and Windows).
New in Aard Dictionary 0.7.0 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Initial release. Changes compared to SDict Viewer:
- New binary dictionary format
- New article format
- Use PyICU/ICU for Unicode collation
- Updated UI