Katoob

Katoob is a lightweight, multilingual and bidirectional-aware unicode text editor written in C++ using Gtkmm.

Copyright & License

Katoob, Copyright © 2008-2018 Frederic-Gerald Morcos.
Katoob, Copyright © 2002-2007 Mohammed Sameer.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

See the file LICENSE for details.

Authors

Author and maintainer (2008-2021): Fred Morcos [email protected]
Original author (2002-2007): Mohammed Sameer [email protected]

About

Katoob is a lightweight multilingual BiDi aware text editor. It supports opening and saving files in multiple encodings. The main support is some for Arabic language specific features.

Katoob features a traditional, easily discoverable user interface with menus and toolbars, à la Gtk+ and Gnome 2. Even though there are plans to port Katoob to Gtk 3 and eventually Gtk 4, the user interface will keep the advantageous properties of traditional menus, toolbars and status bars.

It should run on the BSDs, Linuxes, POSIX-compatible operating systems and Windows. However, Windows support is currently untested. For the time being, its best bet to run on Windows would be using the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Features

Multiple codepage support, not just UTF-8.
The ability to Open/Save files in multiple encodings.
Search/Replace/Replace all.
Configurable Undo/Redo.
Follows the XDG specification for cache and config files.
Read from stdin via a pipe, e.g. cat file | katoob -.
Open multiple files from the command line.
An MDI Interface.
Line wrapping.
Left and right line numbers.
The ability to select the toolbar style.
Recent files menu.
An encodings menu to change the encoding on the fly.
The statusbar has an indicator weather the file is modified.
Read-only files can't be modified.
Display the used encoding in the status-bar.
Gnome 2 human interface guidelines compliant interface.
Desktop menu entry.
Syntax highlighting via GtkSourceView.
On-the-fly and on-demand spell-checking.
Per document settings on the fly.
A configurable extended toolbar offering some common functions.
A keyboard emulator.
Configurable multipress for different languages.
Auto-save.
Support recovery of files in case of a crash.

Screenshots

Requirements

Katoob is being developed and modernized on Archlinux. It originally was being developed on Debian GNU/Linux but it should work on any Linux distro, the BSDs and perhaps even MacOS and Windows.

Dependencies

gtkmm-2.4
glibmm-2.4
giomm-2.4
gtksourceview-2.0
enchant-2
dbus-1
dbus-glib-1
expat
libcurl
zlib
shared-mime-info
isocodes

Building and Installation

After downloading Katoob or cloning this repository:

cd katoob-VERSION
meson setup build --prefix /installation/prefix
cd build
ninja

and to install:

ninja install

To change the build type, change the meson setup build line to the following:

meson setup build --prefix /installation/prefix --buildtype debug|debugoptimized|release|minsize

To see the different build options, use meson configure.

News and changelogs

2021-11-07 Fred Morcos [email protected]
- Version 0.5.9.2
- Branched from 0.5.9 (skipped the broken 0.5.9.1 and 0.6.0-alpha)
- Enchant-2
- Much improved meson build
- Kept Windows support (untested for the time being)
- Removed Maemo support (long live)
- Fixed build issues due to bitrot over the past ~13 years
- Replace custom icon PNGs with Gtk built-ins
- Use GIO instead of xdgmime for guessing file mimetypes
- Fixed issue with how the spell-checking popup was being displayed
- Katoob now respects and uses XDG_CONFIG and CACHE directories
- Consistent formatting of files
- Updated man-page
- Fixed an issue with encoding conversions
- Fixed an issue when defining words using the DICT protocol
- Improved dialogs for problems related to the emulator and multipress
- There are still bugs
2018-11-02 Fred Morcos [email protected]
- Version 0.6.0-alpha
- Move from enchant-1 to enchant-2
- Move from autotools to meson
- Remove native Windows support (WSL can be used instead)
- Remove Maemo support
- Fix many build issues due to bitrot over the past 10 years
- Use more Gtk stock icons instead of custom PNGs
- Merge patches from Debian
- Use GIO instead of xdgmime

TODO

Thanks (Old)

Khaled Hosny [email protected]
- Reviewing and correcting the Arabic translation for 0.5.9
- various small i18n and l10n tips
Igor Bogomazov
- He reported and helped debugging the crash under the utf8 locale
Jens Seidel [email protected]
- German PO file corrections (Debian bug #314022)
Islam Motab Amer know as phaeron [email protected]
- Helped debugging the lam-alef handling code
- Helped discover the multiple lines paste bug
- Helped discover the replace all endless loop bug
Mostafa Hussein [email protected]
- New Icons for katoob
- Switching of the line numbers to the right side into the RTL mode idea
Thanks Leonardo Boshell [email protected]
- Patches to fix compilation errors when disabling the spell checker and when freetype andfreetype2 are present
Pav Lucistnik [email protected] & Samy Al Bahra [email protected]
- Fixes segmentation fault on start-up with several systems
Samy Al Bahra [email protected]
- Several Code cleanups and optimisations, Fix many potential buffer overflows. Probably he deserves more than a thanks ;-)
Mohammed Elzubeir < [email protected]>
- Hosting, Supporting the project
Hicham AMAOUI [email protected]
- Redhat 9.0 segfault patch
Youcef Rabah Rahal [email protected] & Isam Bayazidi [email protected]
- Helping me with the Arabic translation
Munzir Taha Obeid [email protected]
- Helped me crushing bugs, iproving the UI, fixing many issues through his many suggestions and bug reports. He deserve more than a THANK YOU, but this is what i can offer :-(
Alaa Abd-El Fatah [email protected]
- Help in debugging katoob 0.2
- Multiple encodings support idea
- Helping in fixing the segmentation fault while saving files with non valid ISO characters "Actually he was the one who discovered it ;)"
- The complete Arabic emulator file
- The idea of HTML numerical reference saving
- His numerous ideas for improving the code, and efficiency
- Modifying the emulator code to get rid of the switch statement
Arabeyes Developer mailing list [email protected]
- Our main development mailing list, ideas and support
Anatoly Asviyan [email protected] [email protected]
- For writing "gkrellxkb", I borrowed the main idea and some code from it ;)
Jens Askengren [email protected]
- GNOME human interface idea
- A patch that changes the text direction buttons to use radio buttons
Krzysztof Krzyzaniak [email protected]
- The Polish translation for version 0.3.0
Mohammed Yousif [email protected]
- Slack package for 0.3 "slack 8.1"
Roozbeh Pournader [email protected]
- Providing the IRAN SYSTEM table
Arash Zeini [email protected]
- Pointing me to "Shabredo" where i borrowed some code ;)
Han Boetes [email protected]
- Helping me with the Mandrake spec file, And maintaining Mandrake package
UTUMI Hirosi [email protected]
- Japanese translation and japanese encodings code, And a screenshot :-)
Diego Iastrubni [email protected]
- Several patches that fixed some segfaults
- The hebrew emulator file
- Hebrew to Logical Hebrew patch
Michelle Konzack [email protected]
- The 2nd bug hunting feast, Many thanks. ;)
- German manpage
Fribidi and Gtkspell authors.

Translations

Arabic
- Mohammed Sameer [email protected] (All versions up to 0.5.8)
- Khaled Hosny [email protected] (0.5.8+)
Polish
- Krzysztof Krzyzaniak [email protected] (0.2.1)
Swedish
- Jens Askengren [email protected] (0.3.1)
Hebrew
- GNU/Linux Kinneret project (http://www.linux-kinneret.org/).
Japanese
- UTUMI Hirosi [email protected]
German
- Michelle Konzack [email protected]
French
- Emmanuel Beffara [email protected] (0.3.8)
Czech
- Jan Grmela [email protected]

Old News and Changelogs

XXXX-XX-XX Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Version 0.6.0-alpha
- We now use GtkUIManager for the UI.
- Use GKeyFile for storage.
- Fixed a crash with enchant.
- Documents are now managed by DocFactory, not be MDI anymore.
2008-01-26 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Release 0.5.9.1
- Fixed a problem that caused katoob to ignore keypresses
2008-01-11 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Release 0.5.9
- This version includes a lot of fixes and changes. Enchant is used as the spelling backend. iso-codes is used to provide "pretty names" for the spell checker dictionaries. Enhancements to the recent menu and to the extended toolbar. Gtk is now used to print. Gtksourceview2 is used for the syntax highlighting. Autosave and crash recovery have been implemented. More GNOME HIG compliance. libcurl is used for all of the network-related operations. Maemo support. A few bug fixes and better Arabic translation.
- Changelog:
  - Enchant is now used for spell checking instead of aspell
  - The iso-codes package can be used to display friendly names for the spell checker dictionaries.
  - The recent menu is displays the name of the file not the full path.
  - Opening a non-existing recent file triggers an error.
  - Better quality Arabic translation (Thanks Khaled Hosny).
  - Maemo support.
  - libcurl is now used for the network.
  - Cairo is not used anymore to draw the extended toolbar extra icons.
  - Make the buttons in the dialogs HIG compliant
  - Pressing Escape will close the spell checking dialog
  - We now use the gtk printing capabilities for printing.
  - Syntax highlighting now depends on gtksourceview2 and it's been rewritten.
  - We now save the documents every minute and recover any files when we start.
  - We also autosave if we crash.
2007-04-28 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Release 0.5.8
- Implemented a multipress input method. Reorganized the input menu. A couple of bug fixes. Added a window to show the multipress and emulator mappings.
- Changelog:
  - Implemented Multipress. Phone style typing.
  - When we create a file, make sure we have read & write permissions (By passing S_IRWXU to open())
  - Added a window to show the emulator and multipress mappings.
  - Line numbers aren't now all bold. Only the active line.
2007-03-31 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Release 0.5.7
- This is mainly a bug fix release. Fixed a bug that can crash the application when OK or Apply is clicked in the preferences dialog under utf8 locales. A lot of small features and enhancements as well as some code cleanups. We also now use gtksourceview not gtksourceviewmm.
- Changelog:
  - Code cleanups.
  - Depend on gtksourceview instead of gtksourceviewmm
  - The current line is drawn in bold when we show the line numbers.
  - In the document right click menu, show the dictionary menu item only if we have a word.
  - Add more drag actions so we can accept data from konqueror.
  - DND should work fine with konqueror now.
  - Dropping a file on a document will open it.
  - Don't use the glib file saving functions as it'll fail if we don't have write access to the target directory even if the target file is writable.
  - Some problems related to the encoding conversion.
  - Started to comment the code via the doxygen style.
  - The tab width is now configurable.
  - Fixed a crash under utf8 locales when clicking "Apply" or "OK" in the preferences dialog.
  - CXXFLAGS now should get CFLAGS prepended. Now --enable-release is really effective!
2006-11-05 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Release 0.5.6
- Shouldn't fail when utf8 is selected from the encodings menu. Reset the GUI when we close a document from the document label close button.
- Changelog:
  - Don't try to convert the encoding if the requested one is utf8. return false if the text is not valid utf8 after we convert it.
  - Reset the gui when we close the document from the document label close button.
2006-11-02 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Release 0.5.5
- Opening large files shouldn't be slow anymore. Dropped the "find and replace" button from the replace dialog.
- Syntax highlighting support using libgtksourceviewmm.
- Changelog:
  - Replace dialog: Removed "Find And Replace".
  - Severe optimization for the lam-alef detection and manipulation code.
  - Syntax highlighting support (Via libgtksourceviewmm)
2006-10-23 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Release 0.5.4
- Importing or exporting text with bidi and shaping applied won't reverse it.
- Updated Japanese translation. The preferences dialog sections are now translated.
- Changelog:
  - When we import or export bidi and shaped text. We process the text line by line because fribidi is reversing the whole text and ignoring line separators.
  - Thanks UTUMI Hirosi [email protected]
    - Updated Japanese translation.
    - The preferences dialog sections are now translated.
    - Various small updates for the desktop.in file.
2006-10-11 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Release 0.5.3
- Can now import/export text that has bidi and shaping applied to.
- The plain text exporting now depends on fribidi.
- Changelog:
  - Can export text after applying bidi and shaping.
  - Exporting plain text depends on fribidi now.
  - Can now import text that has been shaped and had bidi applied to previously.
2006-09-20 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Release 0.5.2
- Can now open remote files using an external command. Added an option to insert files.
- Some small code improvements and cleanups.
- Changelog:
  - Added Insert file.
  - Some small code cleanups.
  - Implemented open location to open remote locations.
  - Check for the return value of the executed subprocess
  - Implemented the Thread class. Migrated our dict lookup code to it.
  - Can now open remote locations.
  - Depend on gtkmm >= 2.6.0 instead of 2.6.5
2006-09-5 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Release 0.5.1
- Fix compilation error when dbus is disabled.
2006-09-4 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Release 0.5.0
- Rewritten in C++ and gtkmm
2006-05-15 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Release 0.3.9
- New French and Czech translations.
- Correction to the German translation, a german manpage was added.
- Updated Hebrew translation.
- A French to Arabic transliteration.
- A few bugs have been fixed as well as some features enhancements.
- Changelog:
  - German manpage (Michelle Konzack)
  - Updated Hebrew translation.
  - New French translation.
  - French to Arabic transliteration emulator layout by Emmanuel Beffara
  - When we are saving, If the user wrote a filename in the text entry, we should use it instead.
  - New Czech translation (Thanks Jan Grmela)
  - Fixed a weired segfault during startup (Thanks oren maurer for reporting)
  - German PO file corrections (Debian bug #314022)
  - Extended toolbar searching is now case insensitive.
  - An arrow should appear with icons from the toolbar if the display width is not enough.
  - Should really save the aspell lists.
  - Arabic text should be handled by aspell as usual.
  - Added diacritics buttons to the extended toolbar.
  - Regenerated the icons from the SVG.
  - Updated COPYING file, The FSF address changed.
2004-08-30 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Released 0.3.8
- Long time no releases, But I kept my word, The release happened this month ;-)
- What to expect ? A long list of bug fixes and improvements,
- The last release was really buggy as hell. I hope this one'll be fine.
- Hey, We have a new icon now!
- A crash? Should be able to debug itself, and you won't loose your files.
- Hebrew and Japanese translations.
- Small UI tweaks here and there.
- A lot more.
- Changelog:
  - The ability to open multiple files from the open dialog (Bug #54).
  - Remembering the last place from where files were opened/saved (Bug #55).
  - Implemented own command line arguments parser.
  - katoobdocument.c: Fixed compilation errors when the spell checker is disabled (Thanks Leonardo Boshell [email protected] for the patch)
  - src/Makefile.am: Fixed compilation errors when freetype and freetype 2 are there! (Thanks Leonardo Boshell [email protected] for the patch)
  - Dict protocol support.
  - New icons for katoob (Thanks Mostafa Hussein [email protected]).
  - Fixed the bug that caused all the window parts to be shown even if they are disabled in the preferences dialog.
  - Some speed optimisation.
  - Katoob won't complain about backup problems when saving for the 1st time.
  - A statusbar indicator for the insert button.
  - The crash dialog should be fine now.
  - Katoob try to save the open files if it crash.
  - A new configuration file parser.
  - Don't modify the stored directory path if the user canceled the open dialog.
  - Cleaned the config saving and freeing routines.
  - Some fixes for the Makefiles.
  - print dialog, properly destroy the dialog so it can be opened again!.
  - Replaced katoob_debug(__FUNCTION__); with a macro: KATOOB_DEBUG__FUNCTION
  - Code cleanup: katoob compiles under g++ 2.95 & 3.3.1.
  - Don't connect to the dict server except when the user clicks on the "Dictionary" item.
  - UTF-8 is the default encoding for saving (#66)
  - Memory leak in the case insensitive search code.
  - Added a hebrew translation.
  - Converted pl.po to UTF-8. (Bug #50)
  - katoob.po: removed, ar.po: corrected an error. (bug #141)
  - A Japanese translation.
  - src/katoob.h: Katoob now compiles under gtk+ 2.4
  - Added --enable-new-widgets to enable using the new gtk 2.4 widgets instead of the old ones
  - Added --enable-release to ommit the additional debugging symbols
  - save.c: saving with the same filename but different encoding should update the document encoding now.
  - katoobdocument.c: Fixed bug #150.
  - search.c: fixed a segfault when doing "replace all" 2 times.
  - conf.c: return when we can't open the print conf. file "Samy Al Bahra".
  - file selector: Don't remember the path accross sessions. And always start from the c\urrent dir, and fail to the home dir.
  - Try to recover text till the illigal byte when the "illigal byte sequence" error appears.
  - A hebrew file for the emulator "Diego Iastrubni [email protected]"
  - conf.c: fixed a segfault.
  - Hebrew is now Logical Hebrew (Thanks cuco)
  - German translation (Thanks Michelle Konzack)
  - some fixes for the print dialog.
  - BUG: config_struct_foreach() free config->backup_dir instead of config->backup_ext
  - Display an error dialog when no spellchecking dictionaries are available, Don't pass a NULL PspellManager variable to pspell_manager_check() as it'll segfault.
  - Disable the RTL/LTR text alignment under gtk 2.4 :-(
  - A new about box per Michelle Konzack's request.
  - Fixed an infinite loop when u replace all and the from string is a substring of the to string.
  - Handle the LAM-ALEF presentation forms, Replace them by lam+alef "incomplete".
  - Convert hindi digits to arabic when we save in cp1256 "disabled".
2003-08-26 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Released 0.3.5
- What can I say? A long time since the latest stable release.
- Changes since the last development release:
  - DnD Support
  - More UI enhancements.
  - Backup before saving.
  - Rewritten BiDi line direction detection algorithm.
  - Native printing support, No more txtbdf2ps stuff ;-)
  - IDL files are detected and highlighted.
  - Numerous code cleanups, bug and mem leaks fixes, potential segfaults were fixed and stability increased.
- Changes since the last stable release:
  - Rewrote many parts of the code.
  - A new emulator infrastructure.
  - BiDi support.
  - All ISO and Windows encodings are supported now.
  - Many UI enhancements.
  - Spell checking is Ok now.
  - Source highlighting.
  - More and more than I can remember.
- Changelog:
  - Dropping a file on katoob window result in opening it.
  - Segfault when freeing xkb groups on redhat 9.0.
  - Three dots after all menu entries that lead to dialog boxes.
  - Preferences dialog categories are now translated.
  - Backup before saving implemented.
  - Fixed some memory leaks and code cleanups.
  - Calculate the cursor position correctly when tabs are inserted
  - Added "..." to all menu entries popping a question dialog.
  - The document created on startup grab the keyboard input.
  - recheck the document when changing the dictionary.
  - spell check button to the extended toolbar.
  - fixed close all not canceling when hitting cancel.
  - Added the emulator entries to a submenu.
  - unset readonly when saving a readonly document.
  - fixed a bug that caused the selected text to be unselected when right clicking.
  - Renamed Toolbar to Main toolbar, and added the extended toolbar option to the toolbars submenu.
  - A small fix for the man page.
  - misc.c: segfault "katoob - - - - - - - - -"
  - No beep when no documents found, and when no undo or redo items.
  - Signal handler to try and save the open files.
  - Removed the preferences shortcut.
  - Makefile.am: A bug caused linking to the system fribidi if present.
  - mdi.c: memory leak.
  - Increased katoob window icon size.
  - encodings.c: some tweaking.
  - prefs-dlg.c: The text direction isn't selected correctly.
  - Rewrote the BiDi line direction detection algorithm to fix the high CPU and memory usage.
  - conf.c: disable_xft is FALSE by default.
  - main.c: Disabled the signal handler
  - moved xkb_grp and xkbEventType from the config struct to the katoob struct.
  - Added --enable experimental and marked all the crash handler stuff as experimental. #ifdef EXPERIMENTAL ... #endif
  - New fribidi based on version 0.10.4 + fribidi_log2vis for the printing.
  - The import and export menu items are not check items.
  - The document encoding is set to UTF-8 if the opened file is valid UTF-8
  - Save as with a different encoding sets the document encoding to it.
  - recent.c, conf.c: fclose the config files after loading and/or saving.
  - prefs-dlg: Fixed the backup directory selector title.
  - Native printing support.
  - Exporting doesn't unset the modified state for the document.
  - Fixed compiling errors when the spell checker and printing support are disabled.
  - replaced getenv() with g_get_home_dir()
2003-06-25 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Released 0.3.4.91
- This version should fix all the problems related to detecting aspell/pspell via the configure script, Added java, TeX, Ada to the automatically highlighted languages.
- Changelog:
  - configure.in: Fixed all pspell/aspell detection problems
  - html.c, misc.c: #include <stdlib.h> for atoi()
  - mdi.c: removed extern UI *katoob from katoob_create_doc_from_file()
  - print.c: #include <stdlib.h> for system()
  - highlight.c: katoob_get_highlight_type() Added java, tex and ada
  - mdi.c: fixed compile error when enabling highlight.
2003-06-24 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Released 0.3.4.90
- This is a 0.3.5 prerelease, Offering many features and enhancements, It's mainly a rewrite, Spell checker support, Syntax highlighting, Many encodings are now supported, And More!
- Changelog
  - Rewrite using GtkObject model.
  - encodingslist.h: Added some more encoding names, fixed some others.
  - bidi.*: New files, All the BIDI code is there.
  - conf.c, katoob.h: Added text_dir & bidi options.
  - main.c: New "text direction" menu.
  - Almost complete BIDI support.
  - Added text direction to the preferences dialog.
  - mdi.c: the close button is generated but hidden if config->showclose = FALSE
  - Changing the "show close button option" Applies to the opened tabs.
  - Added ISO-8859-16 "Romanian" To the list of supported encodings.
  - More Language names in the encodings menu.
  - A new implementation for the encoding menu & encoding list generation, Making it more easy to add more encodings.
  - The ability to display line numbers
  - The configuration struct is freed before quit
  - Fixed choosing not to save on exit doesn't save for that time only!
  - saveas.c: removed, all functions are in save.c, renamed katoob_saveas() to katoob_save_as()
  - autogen.sh: Check for libtool & intltool.
  - The text buffer is scrolled to the highlighted item.
  - The ability to disable antialiasing.
  - encodings.c: Changing the encoding of an unassosiated buffer, treat it as if it was encoded in the default encoding.
  - The ability to change the editor fonts.
  - Integrated the spell checker into KatoobDocument.
  - Katoob skip Arabic words spelling.
  - The recent menu should be really fixed ;-)
  - save as add the file to the recent menu.
  - Removed the encoding option from the command line options.
  - man page cleaning.
  - Unsupported command line options are ignored instead of displaying the help and exiting with return code 1.
  - Debugging output is printed to stdout instead of stderr.
2003-01-19 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Release 20030119
- Full BiDi support is now implemented.
- The configure script problems is now fixed, Fixed "fribidi.h" not found compilation problem.
- Update gtkspell to 2.0.4 "can now make use of either aspell or pspell", and some optimization for the spell checker.
- The configure script links against libstdc++ which pspell or aspell is linked against.
- The spell checker is disabled by default, The bidi support is enabled by default.
- Changelog:
  - configure.in: fixed "./configure: bidi: command not found" when disabling bidi
  - Fixed the complain about missing fribidi.h when disabling BIDI (Thanks Alaa & Uri Elias for reporting)
  - gtkspell.c: replace all gtk_text_view_get_buffer() by katoob->active_buffer, Removed the destroy callback
  - mdi.c: NULL katoob->active_buffer when no more open documents
  - A man page is now included.
  - Update gtkspell to 2.0.4 "can now make use of either aspell or pspell" & updates for the configure.in script
  - mdi.c mdi.h katoob.h gtkspell.c gtkspell.h: Changed HAVE_PSPELL to HAVE_SPELL
  - BiDi algorithm works when opening files
  - configure.in: gtkspell is disabled by default, bidi is enabled by default.
2003-01-18 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Released 0.3.1
- This is mainly a bugfix release.
- Fixed a bug that caused the mainwindow to be destroyed without katoob quitting, A bug that fixes the compilation problems against glibc 2.3.1 and bug that caused the about box to be opened more than once!
- Added an Arabic translation for the GPL, And a Swedish translation
- A man page is now included.
- Changelog:
  - src/file.c: Applied patch from bug #12
  - src/main.c: Applied patch from bug #11
  - Added po/pl.po
  - Added po/sv.po
  - src/misc.c: Fixed warnings when displaying the emulator file not found error Fixed a bug that enables the user to open more than 1 about dialog
  - Added GPL.ar, An Arabic copy of the GPL
  - Makefile.am: Added GPL.ar to EXTRA_DIST, cleaned duplicate THANKS entry in the EXTRA_DIST
  - katoob.spec.in: Modified the description.
  - Added a man page.
2003-01-02 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Released 20030102
- This is a development release.
- All compile time problems should be fixed in this version but maybe some pspell related problems are still around ;)
- Fixed gcc 2.9.5 compilation failure, RedHat problems with the autogen.sh script.
- Properly using intltool to translate GNOME desktop entry!
- Fixed a segfault when auto selecting an encoding in the save dialog "The displayed name is different than the actual encoding name!"
- Changelog:
  - acconfig.h: deprecated & removed
  - configure.in: all symbols are defind there with description
  - better I18N using intltool "translation for katoob.desktop file".
  - Removed the bundled fribidi option, Always link against the bundled one
  - configure.in: changed --disable-gtkspell to --enable-gtk-spell
  - Fixed compile time disabling of the spell checker
  - src/iransystem.c: Fixed gcc 2.9.5 compile errors
  - src/file.c: Fixed a segfault when auto selecting an encoding in the save dialog "The displayed name is different than the actual encoding name!" (Thanks Uri Elias [email protected] for reporting)
2002-12-08 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Released 20021208
- This is a development release.
- This version fixes the broken encodings menu, the encoding display in the statusbar & fixes several memory leaks. Fribidi is now used to handle the BIDI algorithm.
- Please have a look at the TODO files for the current limitations.
- Changelog:
  - Fixed the encoding display problems in the statusbar
  - Spell checking using gtkspell
  - Fixed the encodings menu
  - Several memory leaks
  - Fribidi is used to handle the BIDI algorithm
2002-11-02 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Released 01112002
- This is a development release.
- Limitations:
  - The encoding display in the statusbar doesn't work correctly
  - The encoding menu is broken
  - The BIDI support is incomplete
  - The RTL/LTR doesn't work when switching pages
  - The HTML reference doesn't cover all characters
  - No way to choose the default encoding
  - Several memory leaks
  - Remove or keep the xkb switcher??
  - Recent menu doesn't save in the correct order
  - FIX REAL_OPEN
- Changelog:
  - Rewrote all the language routines to facilitate the addition of other encodings.
  - RTL, LTR are now radio buttons "patch by Jens Askengren".
  - Fixed a bug that caused the main window to be destroyed when choosing cancel or saving fails. when prompted to save the files upon exit.
  - Updated Polish translation
  - BIDI algorithm "EXPERIMENTAL"
  - Fixed a bug with the about box that allowed opening 2 dialogs.
  - Fixed a bug that prevents the display of the close button when choosing "No" upon trying to open a non existing file from the recent menu.
  - Re organised the commandline files opening routines. "reading from stdin works if '-' is anywhere"
  - The statusbar now displayes the encoding
  - Fixed a bug that caused the configuration to be saved even if disabled from the preferences dialog.
2002-09-12 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Released 0.3.0
- This version comes after a very long time and big efforts spent in the development. This version offers the new MDI interface, Follows the GNOME human interface guidelines, Fixes many bugs and segfaults "Most of them happens when the user does an unexpected behaviour as opening binary files as HTML style". A new preferences dialog. More options are now customizable, Saving in plain UTF-8, ISO-8859-6 & cp1256 works well. The ability to import and export HTML numerical characters references. The new Arabic emulator. You really got to try this version. ;)
- Changelog:
  - The new MDI interface
  - A Polish translation "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak [email protected]"
  - The statusbar update followes the cursor movement.
  - Line & Column count begins from 1 not 0.
  - Removed all images from the executable file, They are now loaded at runtime
  - The textbuffer is now always in focus
  - Enter in the "search for" or "replace with" activates the "find" button
  - GNOME interface guidelines compliant menubar "suggested by Jens Askengren"
  - Goto line in the menubar
  - All dialogs are now transient on the main window
  - New icons for katoob!
  - An arabic keyboard emulator to enablr the user to type Arabic without configuring an Arabic keyboard
  - Added "Text beside icons" To the toolbar style
  - A popup menu to the toolbar to select the style
  - A buffer status indicator in the label
  - Save a copy has been implemented
  - Implemented revert
  - Rewrote the recent routines to avoid possible segfaults
  - Many code cleanups, Numerous bug fixes
  - Fixed a bug when trying to save text with BIDI tags in windows or iso encoding
  - Enabling/Disabling, Limiting the size of the Undo history
  - Limiting the size of the Recent documents menu
  - More improvements to the user interface
  - Opening multiple files from the command line
  - The ability to import, export files in the "HTML Numerical characters reference"
  - Katoob doesn't display an error when the configuration file is not found
  - Fixed the error when saving empty files
  - Enhancements for the encoding menu
  - --enable-debug defines g_malloc() as malloc(), g_free() as free() and includes stdlib.h
  - Katoob doesn't save when the disk is full
2002-08-14 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Released 0.2.1
- This version is mainly a bug fix, fixed many crashes, The most important is crashing when saving a buffer in the ISO encoding whice contains non ISO valid characters. And more error checking to prevent possible ones. The interface changes are kept to the minimum in this version. And fixed a bug that caused a file opened via command line to be aded more than once to the recent menu.
- Changelog:
  - Fixed the search dialog where some buttons didn't display the whole label
  - Added a GNOME menu entry, with a modified smaller logo, Adapted the .spec.in
  - The statusbar now displayes the cursor position, The state of the file
  - More error checking in realopen(), real_save() and real_saveas()
  - Fixed a segfault when changing the encoding of a non valid encoded file
  - Fixed a bug in the recent menu routines caused a file to be added more than once when opened via command line arguments
  - Fixed the "replaceall" Warning by gcc
  - Fixed a segfault when trying to save a file in ISO with non ISO valid characters in the UTF buffer
2002-08-10 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- Released 0.2
- This version is A major interface improvement. With the recent menu, preferences dialog, toolbar & statusbar customization options. With some more features discover it yourself ;)
- Changelog:
  - Recent documents menu
  - Preferences dialog
  - katoob can now read from the standard input "cat foo | katoob -"
  - A menu option to save window attributes when exit
  - A menu item to show/hide the toolbar
  - The toolbar can now be text only, icons only, or both
  - A menu item to show/hide the statusbar
  - In addition to the new configuration file layout, code optimization and of course the Arabic translation
  - No need to set the Codepage in the environmental variables to display the Arabic interface
  - The main window now has an icon "similar to that in the about box"
2002-07-27 Mohammed Sameer [email protected]
- First public release 0.1
- The first public release, after months of work. What more to say ;)

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