Klavaro Touch Typing Tutor / News: Recent posts

• In this release we have added the Turkish translation and support for Indonesian, and updated translations for Dutch, French and Swedish.
• Norman US layout was added.
• The lil help dialog has gone, as it was something unuseful.
• We are linking again with the external GtkDatabox library, based on GTK3, see https://gtkdatabox.sourceforge.io/
• And we are providing a win64 installer, compiled using MSYS2. Now it's easier, as MSYS2 comes with a handy "pacman" (package manager). See: https://www.msys2.org/

Web site changed, now it is using https.
It is more secure, but then the ranking server had to be changed, so that previous releases won't work anymore.

The web site translation changed, it's not hosted by Transifex anymore.
Now we are using a wiki system, hoping that it will be more confortable for the volunteers to translate.
See there:
https://klavaro.sourceforge.io/i18n/

Windows package available again, compiling through MSYS2, hope it works ok!

After almost 2 years, finally some new things. Mainly for the evolving of GTK+3, which is the base for Klavaro's graphical interface, some annoying bugs appeared in this period and we hope to have eliminated most of them.
Please help us keeping Klavaro free of bugs reporting them whenever possible. Nice learning!

Arabic was translated, hope everything is in order with that "rigth-to-left" script.

The website was updated with many new languages: Catalan, Croatian, Galician, Greek, Lithuanian, Russian.
See also the interface, which received good new whole translations for Catalan and Croatian.

We have a new approach for translating Klavaro's website, we are using Transifex. And the first results are the translations for French and for German. See there:

http://klavaro.sourceforge.net/fr/

http://klavaro.sourceforge.net/de/

Speech integration is done now through use of the Espeak program.
In order to enable it, install Espeak in your system, hoping that it supports your language. Then, in Klavaro, ensure the language selected is the same of the interface. Check the "Speech" box and go to modules basic, adapt or velo.

Hope you like the voice of Espeak. This will be useful mainly for blind people.

The ranking server was updated, now it is hosted at Sourceforge.net.
We hope this way we can make it more stable.
So, everything is reset, sorry for the inconvenience: your local scoring should be uploaded again.

Klavaro was tested and accepted by Softpedia:

http://mac.softpedia.com/progClean/Klavaro-Clean-54279.html

Although there they tested version 1.2.0, its a very nice achievment!

From this release, we have fixed a problem with scoring to internet from AMD64 machines.

We ported and provided a new bin also for MS-Windows, including the possibility to upload your scorings to internet.

And finally, the host ranking server was updated, so old scorings will gradually disappear, no more than 1 year to stay at Top 10. So, if you want to keep there, go on typing!

This new release looks like a completely new application, but... it's just the same old Klavaro typing tutor.

Thanks to the great suggestions and help of David Prieto (now, our official designer :-), we have achieved something more pleasable to use.

Hope everybody like it!

Since version 1.1.9, Klavaro enables playing a kind of online contest, where users try to achieve the higher score in a touch typing challenge. This works for the "fluidness" module, but... that's only for Linux users.

From now on, translations for Klavaro are handled via the Translation Project. For more information, visit the site of this very interesting service:

http://translationproject.org/

And Klavaro appears there:

http://translationproject.org/domain/klavaro.html

We have two more languages supported now, thanks to:

• Trần Ngọc Quân (Vietnamese);

• Ankur ICT Development Foundation; http://www.ankur.org.bd (Bangla)

Thanks to Jess Body, now the Urdu language is also supported. This is the first arabic script implemented in Klavaro, enjoy it!

From version 1.1.1, Klavaro was included as a port in MacPorts:

http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/games/klavaro/Portfile

Since version 1.1.0, Klavaro enables playing a kind of semi-online game, where users try to achieve the higher score in a touch typing challenge. Have fun!

Since version 1.0.9, we have used the Subversion system to make available to everyone interested the possibility to track the development of Klavaro and even help on it.

Here is the main "trunk":

http://klavaro.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/klavaro/trunk/

We would like to inform that Klavaro was included as a part of ZenEdu LiveCD.
The application will now be enjoyed by people who will download this LiveCD.
The release announcement of ZenEdu LiveCD has hit
distrowatch:
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04664.

We enjoy very much the interest of ZenEdu LiveCD team!

Now we have quickly updated ports for FreeBSD boxes:

http://www.freshports.org/games/klavaro/

Debian GNU/Linux officially accepted Klavaro as one of its programs. Klavaro is a simple and effective tutor for those who wants to learn touch typing. Its basic course was designed to not depend on any specific keyboard layout. Besides the basic lessons, it provides other three levels of practicing: adaptability, velocity and fluidness.

Klavaro was included in the main section of Debian's software repository, thanks to the initiative of Lionel Le Folgoc as the maintainer. It was accepted just a few days ago, in 2007-01-14. And from now on, we can have the "deb" binaries directly from the official pools, for a variety of architectures, from i386 to SPARC.... read more

When we don't get bug reports and the downloads goes on steady, then it's time to name it "stable". This is the first production release of Klavaro.

Using MSYS, MingW, the GTK+ 2 development files from Tor Lillqvist and
making some little adjustments, it was quite easy to compile the
Windows binary.

We hope to receive more feedback from users now.

So, finally we reached the beta development stage.
Hope you enjoy it.
Now it's GTK++ 2!