And a language poll for MACadd
There are two bits of news from Kevin Wells for some of his applications: There’s a new StreetFix release, which now stands at version 1.09, and he’s running a poll in relation to adding new language support to MACadd.
Looking at StreetFix first, Kevin upgraded it recently to version 1.08, adding support for multiple languages, and he has now released version 1.09, in which that support extends to the application’s interactive help (the facility through which RISC OS applications can provide small snippets of help to indicate the purpose of different icons, menu items, etc.)
Like much of Kev’s software, the program makes use of Wget to relay information via the remote application programmer interfaces (APIs) of websites so that RISC OS users don’t have to grapple with websites to achieve the same ends. In this case, the goal is to report and check on local issues; damaged street furniture, potholes, and so on.
With MACadd, which is used to look up information about Media Access Control (MAC) addresses – the unique addresses assigned to networked devices – Kevin is planning to add support for a number of additional languages. However, he’s going to tackle the languages one at a time, so he is running a poll to determine the order in which he does this, with the options being Dutch, French, and German. There is a logic to this; if there are more votes for (say) Dutch than German, the suggestion is that there may be more users who would benefit from that language being added, making it a higher priority.
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