BillReminder

It is with extreme pleasure that I annound the release of BillReminder “Royale with cheese” version 0.3.2! This released was concentrated on fixing bugs, adding more translations, and getting some work done for future reporting features.

Straight from the NEWS file, here’s what you’ll find in this release:

Bugs:

• Paid/Not Paid entries exist in File and Edit menus; Make them toggle/untoggle appropriately (Bug #13)
• Issues with date and time locale? (Bug #12)
• Ambiguity with Alerts and Alarms in preferences dialog (Bug #11)
• Make category names a unique field. (Bug #1)
• Newly added categories should be selected automatically (Bug #2)
• Make setting an alarm really optional. (Bug #4)

Backend:

• Changed BillReminder to use GConf for is configuration values. Thanks Wilson Pinto Junior
• Changed BillReminder’s command line parsing to use OptionParser. (Bug #3)

Translations:

• cs.po:  Pavel Šefránek
• de.po:  Lorenz
• en_CA.po:  Stuart Read
• en_GB.po:  Jen Ockwell
• es.po:  Ramón Calderón
• fi.po:  Ilkka Tuohela
• fr.po:  Robert-André Mauchin
• he.po:  Yaron
• hr.po:  Mario Đanić
• hu.po:  HORVATH, Akos
• it.po:  Sergio Zanchetta
• nb.po: Tommy Mikkelsen
• nl.po:  Martijn Cielen
• pl.po:  Tomasz Z. Napierala
• pt_BR.po:  Djavan Fagundes and Vladimir Melo
• pt.po:  Susana Pereira
• ro.po:  Ionuț Jula
• ru.po:  Ilya B
• sl.po:  Martin
• sv.po:  Daniel Nylander
• tl.po:  Jerome S. Gotangco
• tr.po:  Rail Aliev

Graphical Interface:

• Mnemonic labels/widgets and HIG work done to dialogs. Thanks Wilson Pinto Junior
• Ask user for confirmation before editing an existing category.
• Added pycairo as a dependency instead of python-Image. Color-coded categories now have a border around the colored tile.

General:

• Renamed MANTAINERS to MAINTAINERS
• Added uninstall method and versioning via autotools (Bug #547768)

Source code downloads are currently available as well as an Ubuntu package. Please report any issues, comments or feature requests using the Bugzilla page.

I finally have my pet project BillReminder packaged for Ubuntu Hardy and Debian, thanks to Diogo Autílio and Gabriel Falcão! The packages (*.deb) can be downloaded from the project’s downloads page, or for the lazy:

• Ubuntu Hardy
• Debian

As always, constructive feedback, patchs, and sugestions can be provided via our support system.

This is a minor release where a couple of bugs have been closed and some UI work was done to improve the workflow. It is worth to mention the new French translation, courtesy of Robert-André Mauchin, updated Dutch translation, courtesy of Daniel van Eeden, and some UI work done by Laudeci Oliveira.

Changelog:

Bugs:
• #1906715 – New records can now be created by double-clicking a date in the main calendar. The due date for this new record will be set to the date selected upon double-clicking.
• #1908445 – Fixed a bug that would cause recurring bills not to expand beyond the current year.

Translations:
• French translation added by Robert-André Mauchin
• Dutch translation updated by Daniel van Eeden

Graphical Interface:
• Display categories by category name in ascending order in the categories dialog.
• Display the colored tile for each category next to its name in the categories dropdown in the add/edit dialog.

Grab your tarball now!

It is with a great pleasure that I announce the release of my pet project BillReminder! The road to 0.3 has been a very educational journey for me, and looking back when I first decided to port my original code written in C# to Python just so that I could learn more about Python, I can say that I have learned quite a bit. I have also met some fabulous people along the way, some of them very responsible for me keeping the project going. I can trully say that whenever I find the time to work on this project, I lose track of time. Whenever I feel insecure about my own skills (or when people make me feel that way) I take a look at what I have done so far… it may not be the best piece of software out there, but it is mine… written from scratch!
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