KBABEL 1 September 3rd, 2001 KDE User's Manual kbabel the KDE PO File Editor kbabel Qt-option KDE-option KBabel-option FILE kbabel is an advanced and easy to use PO-file (gnu gettext message catalogs) editor. It has many features, that makes editing and managing your PO-files easy. This includes full navigation capabilities, extensive editing functionality, search functions, syntax checking and statistics function. Also included is a "Catalog Manager", a file manager view, which helps you to keep an overview over your PO-files. KBabel will help you to translate fast and also keep consistent translations. This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`--'). A summary of the options supported by kbabel is included below. --author Show author information --help Show help about options --help-qt Show Qt specific options --help-kde Show KDE specific options --help-all Show all options --license Show license information -v, --version Show version information and exit. --display displayname Use the X-server display displayname. --session sessionId Restore the application for the given sessionId. --cmap Causes the application to install a private color map on an 8-bit display. --ncols count Limits the number of colors allocated in the color cube on a 8-bit display, if the application is using the QApplication::ManyColor color specification. --nograb tells Qt to never grab the mouse or the keyboard. --dograb running under a debugger can cause an implicit -nograb, use -dograb to override. --sync switches to synchronous mode for debugging. --fn, --font fontname defines the application font. --bg, --background color sets the default background color and an application palette (light and dark shades are calculated). --fg,--foreground color sets the default foreground color. --btn, --button color sets the default button color. --name name sets the application name. --title title sets the application title (caption). --visual TrueColor forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8-bit display. --inputstyle sets XIM (X Input Method) input style. Possible values are onthespot, overthespot, offthespot and root. --im XIM server set XIM server. --noxim disable XIM. --caption caption Use caption as name in the titlebar. --icon icon Use icon as the application icon. --miniicon icon Use icon as the icon in the titlebar. --dcopserver server Use the DCOP Server specified by server. --nocrashhandler Disable crash handler, to get core dumps. --waitforwm Waits for a WM_NET compatible windowmanager. --style style sets the application GUI style. --geometry geometry sets the client geometry of the main widget. --nosplash disable splashscreen at startup ~/.kde/share/apps/kbabel/ ~/.kde/share/config/kbabelrc kbabel configuration kbabeldict(1) kbabel is documented in detail by The KBabel Handbook (/usr/local/kde/share/doc/HTML//default/kbabel/index.html). KBabel Homepage KDE Matthias Kiefer kiefer@kde.org This man-page was written by Jan Schaumann jschauma@netmeister.org as part of "The Missing Man Pages Project".