Artha ~ The Open Thesaurus Git

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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 hot key changes, 
	so as to notify the user. Instead of sticking to Ctrl + Alt + W, 3 more hot key 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.