Tagaini Jisho

Tagaini Jisho 0.9.4 released

Gnurou — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:10:33 +0000

Just a little more than one month after the previous version - are we going to have regular updates?

Changelog is modest though:

Fixed some issues with kanji popup component highlighting
Fixed romaji-to-kanji converter (digraphs were missing)
Added option to hide English meanings when a translation is available

Nonetheless, hope you will enjoy it while some more exciting stuff is being developed.

Tagaini Jisho 0.9.3 released

Gnurou — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:54:40 +0000

The latest Tagaini update is now available! Apart from the usual bug fixes (0.9.2 was not quite bug-free) and new features (at long last, you can now search for Japanese text in romaji), the real novelty of this version resides in its use of new data. JLPT levels have been updated to follow the new levels (thanks to the data provided by the JLPT Resources Page). The interface is now available in many more languages thanks to the translator's work on Transifex (do not hesitate to join if you want to improve the coverage of Tagaini in your language!). Perhaps most important, Tagaini now takes advantage of the JMdict and kanjidic2 internationalization efforts. These are two new projects that aim at translating the Japanese dictionaries from English to other languages. Once again, participating is easy and fun, so please do not hesitate to contribute to them!

Full Changelog:

Update JLPT lists to follow new N* scheme (thanks to the JLPT Resources Page: http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/)
Added optional link to example sentences on Tatoeba or jisho.org
Plenty of new languages supported for GUI and databases: Italian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, ...
Fix: do not display empty glosses for a language in detailed view
Fixed wildcard search which was broken in previous version
Core and SQLite modules are compiled as shared libraries, and SQLite module can be loaded as an SQLite extension
Fixed database concurrency bugs
Much faster mass-manipulation of entries
Better handling of components with variations in kanji popup
Allow romaji input for entries and kanji readings
Improved searching of kanji per reading
Fixed buggy part-of-speech search on 32 bits architectures
Correctly update entries when a list operation is done on them

Unofficial packages for Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.11

Gnurou — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:54:05 +0000

Good news for Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 users: unofficial packages of Tagaini are available for these systems. Thanks to Geza Kovacs for maintaining them!

https://launchpad.net/~gezakovacs/+archive/tagainijisho

Want to see more of Tagaini in your native language? Here is how you can make it happen

Gnurou — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:48:20 +0000

One of the most common complain about Tagaini Jisho from non-English users is the fact that the dictionaries not available in languages other than English, except for a few (and very partial) exceptions. This is about to change. We started a new community effort on Transifex to help translate JMdict and kanjidic2, the main data sources of Tagaini into your language:

https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/jmdict-i18n/

You can join one of the language teams (or ask to create new ones), and simply start translating dictionary and kanji entries. The result will be released under a Creative Commons licence, and will be integrated into Tagaini and potentially many other projects that use JMdict and kanjidic2.

Also see how to contribute efficiently here:

http://www.tagaini.net/jmdict-i18n

So, if you want to improve the landscape of Japanese study software, do not hesitate and join!

Tagaini Jisho 0.9.2 released

Gnurou — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:55:20 +0000

Another day, another point release - this is what you get for not releasing your software during more than one year. This new version fixes a bug that affected a small number of users, effectively preventing them from starting the program. It also introduces some optimizations in the databases layout that reduces their size by 13 MB and improves entry loading performance. Upgrade is recommanded but not mandatory if 0.9.1 was working for you.

Tagaini Jisho 0.9.1 released

Gnurou — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:29:33 +0000

The first point release in the 0.9 series is available. It only fixes one serious issue: the new version checker was totally non-functional since 0.9rc, so this version has been released as soon as possible and the faulty versions retired. It is recommended for all users to upgrade to ensure you remain informed about new versions.

Tagaini Jisho 0.9 "Fukkatsu" released

Gnurou — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:58:12 +0000

At long last, after more than one year without a stable release, Tagaini enters the final lap with the release of the 0.9 "Fukkatsu" version!

Although this version is not a fundamental breakthrough, it brings lots of changes under the hood. Databases are better organized, which makes it reasonnable to have only one release for all languages (and not one installer per language version because of duplicated data). Searching and viewing entries should be smoother, with the interface displaying results as you type and the results list not being paged anymore. Lists are much faster and secure. SQLite does not need to be embedded anymore, and the system's SQLite can be used if present.

The most visible change for international users will be the number of new languages the interface is translated to. Thanks to many contributors from Transifex, Tagaini is now available in English, French, German, Czech, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Norvegian, Russian, and even... Japanese! This unfortunately only concerns the GUI, as the dictionary is only partially translated in French and Russian for the vocabulary, and French and Spanish for kanji meanings. But we are also about to see some movement about the dictionary contents, so stay tuned here if you are interested.

Future wise, the core code of Tagaini starts to be solid enough to think about new exciting features. One of the biggest challenges we will have to respond to is the switch to mobile devices. 3 years ago Tagaini offered the option to print booklets for studying anywhere, but this is not really relevant anymore now that everyone owns a smartphone. Although there is no plan to stop the desktop version (because some of the features just cannot be exploited on a phone or tablet), it is a legitimate demand of users today to be able to access their data ubiquitously - this means your study data, lists, and so on. So expect something to happen there too, although it is difficult to know when.

Oh, and Tagaini now also have a Google+ page! Go and +1 it! And of course don't forget to download 0.9!

Tagaini Jisho 0.9rc2 released

Gnurou — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:32:08 +0000

After almost one year without release, and one phantom rc, 0.9 is finally around the corner! This release candidate should be the last before stable 0.9 is released, and is mostly here to ensure everything is fine and to allow translators to update their strings.

From the user perspective, 0.9 should not make a big change excepted for heavy lists users. It has, however, changed a lot internally, and paved the way towards more exciting new features. It also updates the dictionaries to their latest versions.

Despite the lack of development activity, the user base has more than doubled in the last year, and Tagaini has been recognized in various places. It is now time to leverage our community and to make sure Tagaini continues on this way to become the best free Japanese assistant available. Is there any feature you would like to see? Dive into the code and send a patch! Do you want to see Tagaini translated in your native language? Join one of the translations teams on Transifex! Do you have a fantastic idea, but not the necessary time or coding skills? Share it on our mailing list! And of course, report any issue you encounter with this version to make 0.9 as good as possible!

Stupid spammers

Gnurou — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:48:10 +0000

Due to repeated spam, comment and forum posting are disabled for a yet undetermined time. We hope to make them available again shortly. By the meantime, feel free to use the mailing list for communication.

Tagaini Jisho 0.9.0 beta 2 released

Gnurou — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:57:02 +0000

Beta 2 shortly follows beta 1 which has been withdrawn because of a possible data loss bug. This release fixes this bug and restores the ability to change set a sub-list as the root of the lists view. This is now done by double-clicking the list, while the renaming option which was previously mapped to double-click has been moved into the right click menu.

https://launchpad.net/tagaini-jisho/devel/0.9.0b2

The migration problem having been fixed and no other major problem reported for beta 1, this release should be pretty safe to play with. Please try it and report your experience!