The Readerware Newsletter

Readerware 2.0 Update

There is a update to Readerware 2.0 available on the web site. My focus has been on fixing the problems that users have reported with 2.0. I recommend that all users upgrade to this new version as it does fix some important problems.

If you hadn't realized there was an update for 2.0 available, it might have something to do with the fact that one of the the bugs fixed was the check for updates feature. Unfortunately this was broken in early 2.0 releases. So download the latest version and you will once again be able to check for updates.

A new preference has been added by popular demand. As Readerware 2.0 allows you to edit books in the table view itself, a single search result displays as a row in the table, rather than in the detail view as it did in 1.x. Now you can select either option, see the View preferences tab for more information.

Finally there are some changes to the online help. Based on the questions you are asking about Readerware 2.0, I have updated the help to hopefully make some things more obvious.

A full list of the bugs fixed can be found in the Release Notes.

Auto-Catalog sites

There is good news and bad news on the web site front. First, the bad news.

The British Library have moved and totally redesigned their site. I have some gripes with the usability of their new site, but that aside, there is a problem. The new British Library site makes extensive use of JavaScript and frames and as such is incompatible with Readerware and many other browsers out there. I am looking for a solution to this problem, but I don't think there is a short term fix. So for now I have had to disable searches of The British Library.

The good news? With the latest release of Readerware you actually have more sites to search than ever before. Customers in Australia suggested new sites and these have been added, The National Library of Australia and some commercial sites can be searched.

For those interested in searching for religious books, christianbooks.com which I accidentally removed from the initial 2.0 releases is back, along with cokesbury.com. Again these were added due to user requests.

Readerware and Skins

And now Readerware! So what is a skin? It is a way to put a new face on an application. Readerware has always supported different look and feels, a native look and feel for each platform, the cross platform metal look and feel etc. But now by integrating the skinLF from L2FProd.com, Readerware is able to morph into a number of different personalities.

Readerware now includes five different themes. As these are based on the GTK and KDE themes from the Linux world, there are many more possibilities available. I will be discussing ways to create your own themes in a future newsletter but for now play around with any of the following themes included with Readerware:

• Aqua
• BeOS
• MacOS
• Mozilla Modern
• Whistler

You can find more about the SkinLF at:

• http://www.L2FProd.com.
• http://www.mylookandfeel.com.

New Linux Packaging

For more information visit the Linux download page.

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