KBabel
Matthias Kiefer <kiefer@kde.org>
Stanislav Visnovsky <visnovsky@kde.org>
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KBabel is an advanced and easy to use editor for PO files.
It is written using the KDE 3.1 libs and gives the user an
easy to use gui.

KBabel is currently in beta status. So although there is no grave bug 
reported, please use with care at the moment.

If you find a bug or if you have any comment or feature request,
please send a mail to Stanislav Visnovsky <visnovsky@kde.org>.


For always up-to-date information about KBabel have a look at its homepage at
http://i18n.kde.org/tools/kbabel/index.html
The always newest version of KBabel can be found in module kdesdk in
KDE's CVS.


Requirements:
- KDE 3.2/Qt 3.2 or higher
- For the dictionary plugin "Translation database" you need
  Berkeley DB IV. Have a look at http://www.sleepycat.com


KBabel is published under the terms of the GNU GPL.
See file "COPYING" for more details.


    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.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.



Credits:
- Claudiu Costin for writing documentation and many bug reports 
  and useful feature requests
- Thomas Diehl for many useful hints to the gui design and the
  behaviour of KBabel
- Wolfram Diestel for fixing kspell and many useful hints.
- Stephan Kulow for helping keeping KBabel in sync with
  the frequently changing KDE api and for often giving me a helping hand.
- Andrea Rizzi for writing the dictionary plugin for searching in a database
- Stefan Asserhall for implementing tag highlighting and validation, catalog manager caching
- SuSE GmbH for sponsoring the work of Matthias Kiefer on KBabel
- Marco Wegner <dubbleu@web.de> for KFile plugin, bookmarks and bug fixes
- Dwayne Bailey <dwayne@translate.org.za> some validation plugins
- all the others who spent their time sending bug reports and feature requests.


Have fun,
   Matthias Kiefer
 
