With the summer / Christmas holidays now behind us, progress has begun again on kiwitrees-nova, so time for another update. One of the first developments is the choice of the third (and final, for now at least), “standard” theme. This one is Kaponga. Its name translates commonly as just “silver fern”, instantly recognisable as the emblem of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team, and the name of our world-beating ladies netball team the Silver Ferns.

Below is a summary of each theme, and details about their names.

Progress in the last few days has been mainly focused on the layout of charts, starting with the ancestry chart (and it’s various options). Hopefully, decisions made for this can be easily copied to most of the other charts.

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Kiwitrees-nova, the next major version of the kiwitrees software, designed for all device sizes. It was pointed out to me recently that I have not added any blog posts for ages. So I thought I should use this medium to tell everyone about progress on “kiwitrees-nova”.

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