Chewing Editor

chewing-editor is a cross platform chewing user phrase editor. It provides a easy way to manage user phrase. With it, user can customize their user phrase to increase input performance.

Install

• Arch Linux: install from AUR: Stable release, Development
• Mageia: install via urpmi chewing-editor - available in cauldron, Mageia 6 and later.
• Ubuntu Linux:
  • install from Ubuntu APT repository since Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
    • # apt-get install chewing-editor
  • install from PPA ppa:chewing/chewing as development build, which currently supports Ubuntu 13.10 ~ 14.04
    • # add-apt-repository ppa:chewing/chewing
    • # apt-get update
    • # apt-get install chewing-editor

Development

Tools Requirement

• CMake >= 3.0.0
• gcc >= 4.8 or Visual Studio Express 2012
• libchewing >= 0.4.0
• Qt = 5
• Editor with EditorConfig support
• lcov for coverage testing

Build

chewing-editor can be built by the following commands:

cmake .
make

If cmake cannot find Qt5, check the environment variable CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH which shall point to Qt5 installation path. For example: C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\msvc2012_64.

Test

A custom target make check is used to build and run unit test.

Coverage Report

chewing-editor integrates with gcov to provide code coverage report. The following commands will generate coverage report for unit test.

cmake . -DENABLE_GCOV=yes
make check
scripts/lcov.sh

The coverage report will be in coveragereport directory.

Translation

Update Translations

Please use the following steps to update translations:

• cmake .
• make lupdate
• ts files will be updated by lupdate
• Use linguist to edit ts files

Add A New Translation

Please use the following steps to add a new translation:

• Add locale in CMakeFiles.txt
• cmake .
• make lupdate
• ts files will be updated by lupdate
• Use linguist to edit ts files

Known Issues

Bopomofo cannot Display Correctly

Qt5 before v5.3.0 has problem displaying bopomofo with HarfBuzz-NG. If you encounter this issue, please upgrade your Qt5 to v5.3.0, or run chewing-editor with QT_HARFBUZZ=old.

See also:

• https://github.com/chewing/chewing-editor/issues/7
• https://codereview.qt-project.org/80505
• https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtbase/commit/b7f013bf1919486dab56a4436a17a3878341a1d5

Bugs & Feature Request

Please report any bug & feature request to https://github.com/chewing/chewing-editor/issues

Author & Contributors

• ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬)
• 鄭鴻旗
• Mike Tzou
• Yao-Po Wang
• Peter Dave Hello
• David Kuo
• Bruce Liu

Licenses

• This project is licensed under GPL-2.0 or any later version.
• Google C++ Mocking Framework is licensed under New BSD License