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<!ENTITY legal SYSTEM "legal.xml">
<!ENTITY appversion "1.2.0">
<!ENTITY manrevision "2.7.0">
<!ENTITY manrevision "2.6">
<!ENTITY date "February 2005">
<!ENTITY app "GRAMPS">

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your computer instead of pencils and unmanageable reams of paper. </para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="whats-new">
<title>What's new since 1.0.X</title>
<para>This section lists most notable changes from the previous stable branch of
&app;, the 1.0.X.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>Berkely database backend</term>
<listitem><para>The default format for &app; is now the BSDDB database. This change
allowed us to overcome performance issues and memory requirements of the 1.0.X branch.
With the database backend, the database sizes of several hunder thousand people do not
present a major obstacle any longer.</para>
<para>
The default extension for &app; BSDDB database files is grdb. The new format is open and
fully documented in the developer's API reference distributed with the source of &app;.
</para>
<para>A consequence of the new database backend is that the changes, once approved
by the user, are applied immediately. In short, once you click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>
in the Person, Family, Source, Place, Media object, or Event editor, all the changes made to
this object are recorded in the database. No saving is necessary (or even possible). The analog
of quitting without saving would be abandoning all changes and quitting. Also, it is possible
to undo recent actions.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>Interface improvements</term>
<listitem><para>
There were numerous changes in the interface. Most of them are subtle and incremental
improvements, and all of them cannot be listed here. The most noticeable changes are:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Removal of alphabetical tabs</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ability to add/remove/rearrange columns in list views</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Removal of Save function and addition of Undo</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Proper window management and removal of most modal windows</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Support for Tip of the Day</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Person-dependent context menus (right-click) in Pedigree View
listing parents, children, spouses, and siblings</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Export wizard</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Built-in Find function in list views</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Date selector dialog</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Name editor enhancements: patronymic names and non-default grouping</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Recent file support (both gramps-specific and gnome-wide)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>Other database backends</term>
<listitem><para>
Along with the BSDDB backend, the in-memory database handling for &app; XML and
GEDCOM formats has been added. Simply put, it is now possible to natively open data
in those two formats (although the preferred and default format is grdb) and work with
that data, without necessarily setting up an empty database and then importing into it.
This approach requires holding all data in memory, so it is only useful for small databases
(depending on the available memory size). In such mode, the data is automatically
saved upon exit, to mimic the functionality of the real database.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>Import and Export</term>
<listitem><para>
New import and export filters available for the GeneWeb format.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>Reports</term>
<listitem><para>
A new report -- Statistics Chart -- has been added to &app;.
</para>
<para>An overall change of the whole report framework has been acomplished.
All reports now remember their options. It is possible to generate reports from the command
line, without launching the interactive &app; session. The report API is much simpler now,
making it easy to write custom report. A single code instance may be used for a standalone
report, a book item, and a command-line report. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>Command line</term>
<listitem><para>The new command line functionality includes opening the filename
argument given without any flags, as well as new flags and options for report generation.
Also, the addition of new formats leads to addition of available format options.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>Internationalization</term>
<listitem><para>
The approach for entering and displaying dates has been completely re-worked. In
particular, the new framework allows for a deeper localization of displayed dates than
was ever possible using the translatable strings.</para>
<para>The internationalization of names have also been improved. Names can be
grouped under a non-default string. Patronymic names are supported, and it is easy
to program new ways on displaying names, as may be required by other cultures
and languages.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>Desktop integration</term>
<listitem><para>All formats known to &app; are now registered as mime types, each
with its icon and &app; as a default handler. Double-clicking on a file with any of these
formats will launch &app; and open that file. &app; also added support for the recent
documents functinonailty. This is on both for the GNOME-wide level and within the &app;.
</para>
<para>The preferences are now properly store using GConf, with schemas, partitioning
of keys into smaller directories, error checking, and notification. </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="typography">
<title>Typographical conventions</title>
<para>
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</sect1>
</preface>