This is a preliminary version of what will be wordtrans 1.1. In this version the GUI has been improved and also a number of bugs have been fixed.

Although this can be considered a beta release, I think is stable enough for daily use, and so version 1.0.1 has been marked as "obsolete".

This version adds support for more dictionaries in plain text format. Please look at the following URLs for dictionaries which should work with wordtrans:

• http://www.linuks.mine.nu/dictionary/
• http://www.june29.com/IDP/IDPfiles.html
• http://www1.futureware.at/1dim.htm

It's also possible to use non-latin1 dictionaries. So it would be possible to use Russian, Greek or other dictionaries as long as they are coded in UTF-8.

Wordtrans now also supports the English-Hebrew dictionary from Babylon Translator, thanks to the work of Yedidyah Bar-David.

Other changes:

• Adapted for Qt 3. Now it's possible to compile wordtrans with Qt 2.3 or Qt 3.x.
• New preferences dialog.
• Improved internationalization.
• Added a DCOP interface. Now other KDE applications can communicate with kwordtrans and use all supported dictionaries.
• qwordtrans is now both a graphical and a console application.
• A lot of country flags included.

But this version is not finish yet. There are other things to be done.

Planned for wordtrans 1.1:

• I want to rewrite the documentation.
• Package some dictionaries in deb format, so you will only need to install them and use them.
• I would like that wordtrans will be translated to a lot of languages. Anybody wants to help me?

Planned for wordtrans 1.2:

• Group dictionaries. When you search in a group for a word, a searching will be perform in every dictionary in the gorup.
• Maybe adapt kwordtrans for KDE 3.

If you have any suggestion, commentary or whatever, please do it at rvm@escomposlinux.org. Your opinion is very important!

Have fun, and thank you for using Wordtrans!