11 March 2024

After two months of development with various adventures, a new version of bibref is available that provides a graphical user interface. The Qt library was chosen for this purpose, because I already had some experiences with it in other projects like XaoS and GNU Aris.

Hopefully, this new version will bring the joy of discovering quotations from the Old Testemant in the New Testament in the Greek Bible, to a wider audience. Since bibref is designed to be used as a scientific tool, and therefore, reproducing results has a priority, the graphical user interface is still connected to the original set of commands from the terminal version of bibref.

The commands have been grouped into menus File, Edit, Passage, Quotation and Raw. If you use the program in a non-English localization, there are some tooltips available for each command. There is also a Help menu available with additional information. The localization is currently available only for Hungarian, but it is quite simple to add additional languages (see the file hu.ts in case you want to contribute another translation).

The new version is available on GitHub: there is a Windows installer to download and a flatpak file for Linux users (with a flathub link as well).

Acknowledgments: My wife Gerda motivated me to work on a graphical user interface to avoid the command line. I dedicate this version to her. Also, my older son Benedek gave useful feedback by testing the first versions of this new interface.