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Downloads: 1727
| Submitted: Jun 5 2004
Updated: Dec 17 2006
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Description:
Kio-Sword is a lightweight easy-to-use Bible tool for KDE. It provides access to Bibles, commentaries and other texts in an easy to use and attractive interface -- the Konqueror web browser. It does so using the SWORD Bible project and implementing a KDE ioslave, providing the sword:/ protocol.
Despite the low release number, it is quite useable and stable. It includes searching, hyperlinked cross-references and Strongs numbers and various options for customisation.
If you use BibleTime, Kio-Sword will be able to use all the SWORD modules you already have without any extra action. It makes a nice light-weight companion to BibleTime for when you just want to get a verse quickly straight from Konqueror without loading up a large program. Using Konqueror split views you can create parallel reading panels very easily.
PLEASE NOTE:
Out-of-the-box, this will not compile if you have sword 1.5.8 due to a change in the sword API. There are, however, instructions in the INSTALL file about how to fix this. Also note that the Debian Sarge package is incompatible with Kubuntu Breezy (due to the same problem).
Changelog:
2006-12-16: - Release 0.3
* Fixed various bugs, especially to do with non-ascii characters (e.g. searching, links to Bible books in non-English locales)
* Uploaded both a Debian Sarge and Ubuntu Dapper package
2006-01-06: - New release.
Changes include:
* Better support for Bibles in RTL languages (Arabic, Hebrew)
* Supports localised names for books of the Bible
* New, simplified page design using cleaner and better HTML (no tables, semantic HTML)
* Settings propagate in URLs, so you can turn a setting on and it stays on (and this works even if multiple kio_sword processes are spawned)
* Access keys for navigation and toggling formatting settings
* Title of the page is meaningful (much better for browsing history in Konqueror)
* New shortcut for Bible verses: e.g. sword:John 3:16 (note there is no forward slash after "sword:") to go to your default Bible
* Lots of cleaning up of the code, including a new system for settings and output of HTML, using namespaces nicely and naming classes sensibly :-) * Search page pre-selects the default Bible as the module to search
* Various bug fixes
2005-04-23:
- Corrected the dependencies on the Debian i386 package, now at version 0.1-2. (I no longer have an AMD64 setup so I can't fix that package as well)
License: GPL
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