1.0.1 (Jan 20, 2010) Suggestions feature was first implemented with the logic to look for 'en' dict and if not found, some arbitrary 'eb_*' dict was chosen by enumeration. This was done on the reasoning that in some legacy systems LANG environment variable wouldn't be set. But then, with this release, it looks for the variable, if found, it uses it to see if the user has a English variant set, if so, then it tries to load that locale of English dictionary's availability. Hotkey modifiers like Super, Hyper, etc. didn't work since the function to resolve those mods was not called before registering with the X server. This was found in UbuntuForums. The previous release had a couple of major bugs. One was a possible memory leak where in a top level widget obtained from GtkBuilder was not destroyed. Then, in a few distros, like Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc. which have an older WordNet package, when Detailed mode is set, it's library hits the max depth for words like 'muzzle', 'mortify', etc. Artha catches these gracefully, but treats them as errors, while now they are treated as warnings, and stops search beyond allowed depth. With WordNet now having a revamped web site, the links seem to have changed. These and inconsistency with compund words like hotkey, lookup, etc. are fixed. In KDE, the default property value for 'sensitivity' of GtkComboBoxEntry seems to be FALSE, so KDE-ians were not able to enter any search text, now it's fixed by setting in GUI xml. 1.0.0 (Jan 08, 2010) After a long time, the most wanted and the earliest charted feature, hotkey customization, is done. Initially the famed eggcellrendererkeys from gnome-control-center was tried; but the same cell renderer for accelerators seems to have been available for a long time under the name 'GtkCellRendererAccel'. This is used for the same, and it exactly fits the purpose. Handling multiple instances, to make sure only a single instance runs at a given time, was a long standing requirement. This is achieved using D-Bus. libnotify's dependency is now completely removed; it's availability will be determined @ run time; if available, it's functions will be dynamically linked and called to show notifications. gtk_window_present to display Artha's main window as the foremost was not working properly. libtomboy helped here, with it's function tomboy_window_present_hardcore; with this when ever the hotkey is pressed, the window not only comes to the foreground, but also grab's the foucs properly. gtk-builder-convert tool dependency is also removed since the latest release of Glade (glade3) gives XML output that is directly parse-able by GtkBuilder. Cluttered welcome message boxes are now removed since the hotkey is now customizable. Overall code is now restructured with a few other minor bugs fixes. Autoconf and Automake files had a uninstall issue which is fixed and both the files are now cleaner with lesser number of checks for development headers. All in all it's a vital release with a major feature addition and lot of changes to code and build structure; this is the actual release that truly meets all the primary goals set during Artha's genesis :) 0.9.1 (May 17, 2009) Trying Artha on Fedora showed that searching for library wordnet fails when one builds WordNet from source as it gives a archive library output libWN.a and configure looks for libwordnet.so. This is now corrected. When index.sense is missing during the start up, the wordnet_terms var. remains NULL and performing a regex search on it leads to a crash which is now fixed. Artha will throw an error saying that the index file was missing on startup. It was decided against populating the index file on start up using the other index files namely index.noun, index.verb, index.adj and index.adv. The reason is that building WordNet from source installs index.sense by default. In case of binaries it can be added to the dependencies, if it is available only as a separate package. Status bar is now updated on index load, usual lookups and regex searches. Ubuntu 9.04 has introduced new a notification system, wherein if the notification has any action button, the notification is shown up as a message box (already posts are showing up on the net that it sux :) Although, the 'Detailed Lookup' button in Artha was redundant (one can bring up the app. by clicking on the status bar icon). Hence the action button is now cleared. 0.9.0 (Apr 26, 2009) wildmat is a somewhat simplified form of regex which can be used by laymen and advanced users alike. Artha now has regex based search for locating a term in the thesaurus. A conversion func. from the former to later pattern is done and GRegex is used to search the WordNet terms. On startup, index.sense of WordNet is located and all terms are ripped and stored in the mem. which will be used for the regex based searches. Apart from this, double click selecting a term in the definition text view, now looks up for compund terms and if available, jumps to that instead of the actual term selected by double click. 0.8.0 (Feb 10, 2009): Since libenchant is a good wrapper over a lot of dictionaries, it is chosen for suggestions. When Artha loads, it will look for libenchant.so.1 and see if it can get the handles to its functions. If found, Artha can show suggestions on a misspelled word search. libnotify should also be made as a plugin, so that a direct dependency can be cut, but that is something for the next release, along with the regex based searches. Since mappings between relatives and senses are difficult to find, highlighting is done now, when a relative is selected. In all the previous versions, when in detailed mode, each 'Indirect Antonym' was shown under its parent 'Similar' word (word similar to the searched term) due to which it is conceived as an antonym. Now those similar words are put up in a new column so as to avoid confusion. Lot of small bugs and petite memory leaks fixed, apart from these major ones. 0.7.2 (Jan 31, 2009): After trying 0.7.1 on Kubuntu, lots of insights were gained. Even though libnotify is present with dbus, notifications are not shown, since notification-daemon is missing. Hence a check for notify_init's return value is now done, and when it fails, Artha refrains from showing the option at all to the user. Likewise, svg was not supported for menu icons and status bar icon, hence the svg pixbuf is now replace by a png, as it is better supported on most systems. Autotools scripts, both configure and makefile had bugs in finding the library availablity. Hence moved all AC_CHECK_LIBs to pkg-config based checks. When the version number is found incremented (from the conf file), the user is thanked for updating. Preferences are now saved whenever a setting is toggled and not on app. exit. All characters not recognised by WordNet (characters other than alpha, num, -, , _) are stripped off the selection text. Summoning should generally fetch results, better end user experience. When doing a complete code walkthru' to find the maximum version number of GLib and GTK+, it was found that except the func. g_strcmp0, all other GLib functions were either of 2.10 or earlier. Hence wrote a custom wrapper over strcmp to remove the dependency on Glib 2.16. So now the maximum usage of GLib abd GTK are the modules GSlice and GtkBuilder. Phew! Its a pretty hefty release, eh? :) 0.7.1 (Jan 29, 2009): Finally, for bug tracking, Artha is registered in LaunchPad! A 'Report a Bug' button is kept on the About dialog for easy user access. After reading the dbus API docs, came to know that using GLib bindings API is the right way. Hence changed the low-level dbus call to dbus-GLib call to initialize threads in dbus. 0.7.0 (Jan 23, 2009): Since the help is yet to be created, a message box is put for first runs and hotkey changes, so as to notify the user. Instead of sticking to Ctrl + Alt + W, 3 more hotkey tries are added to the list. Artha tries to set them one by one. If none are available, summoning and notifications are disabled. 0.6.5: Last set user's preferences (mode & notifications) will now be stored in a .conf file in the user's config. directory. gtk_show_uri's availability now found in run-time, so that version 2.12 of libgtk is now enough to run/build Artha, instead of 2.14. 0.6.4: 'Attributes' tab will now get renamed dynamically based on the term. E.g. for 'tall' it gets renamed to 'Attribute of' & for 'height' it gets renamed to 'Attributes'. Applications menu shortcut will now get created for Artha under Accessories, implemented with .desktop file. 0.6.3: Finally, a bare bones man page is added to the dist! :) gtk_show_uri(), which is present since GTK+ 2.14, is required for email/url hooks in About screen, all other functions used will build againt 2.12. Hence I created a macro using autoconf. If compiled against libgtk 2.14 or greater, email and url hooks in About screen will be present from now on. 0.6.2: Status bar is now updated with the number of senses in different POSs (Part of Speeches). A minor bug, which resulted in not searching of a already searched term, when the last search was unsuccessful, fixed. 0.6.1: Double clicking or pressing Enter/Return key on a relative from any of the relative list, now jumps to that word's definition search. About box, credits & licence are now mentioned in the GUI. Autoconf and automake are now used to automate the building process in diff. environments. Files COPYING, TODO, AUTHORS, NEWS, INSTALL, README & ChangeLog are added to the project. 0.6: Previous and Next buttons are added to give a browser like feature, wherein the user can scroll thru' the list of terms they have searched. In case of a word already in history, when searched, the word is searched and results are set as usual, but the word is searched for in the history, and its set as the current active index in the combo box, that in-turn was calling the search button click module again, resulting in 2 recursive searches. This issue is fixed. 0.5: After reading a few tutorials, first hand-written Makefile for Artha created with a few rules. Two modes, one simple and the other advanced, designed for simplicity. Users who prefer to live in list based relatives can do so, while veterans who want detailed info on the relatives of a term can also do so with the help of the 'Detailed' mode button. 0.4.1: Populating of tree based relatives done (using recursion). Using the attributes concept of the tree view, bold face for multi occuring relatives are displayed. WNI had a small bug, wherein the term in question is checked against all of the master list, while missing the current list. This issue is fixed. 0.4: Populated list based relatives in the respective GTK Tree View with Tree Store model. Referred X's rgb.txt and assigned different colours for different familiarity category, with the lightest for the most familiar (very familiar) to the darkest for the least (very rare). History of searched words started to maintain in the drop down combo box with a GTK list store. 0.3: After doing code profiling of WNI using gprof, strip_adj_marker() was found to be getting called highly redundantly, it is removed where ever not required. GUI designed with Glade3, while GTK Builder class is used for loading the GUI. Definitions of a searched string displayed in the designed GTK Text View. Initially formatting was like hell, once GTK Text Tag concepts came in, this was much better with a decent formatting/colour-coding scheme. 0.2: XGrabKey, to grab a hotkey combo, which was long done (2007 year end) before the project started came in very handy when it was required. libnotify used to display the first definition of Artha from System Tray icon. 0.1.1: Memory leaks checked with Valgrind. Since Slice Allocator was recommended by GTK+, code's alloc's. moved to Slice Alloctor. 0.1: After a lot of contemplation, WordNet Interface module is created with a list model for a few relative lists and tree model for the remaining, so that they can be used for different modes.
