eSword vs. JSword

[Pursuer]

Are these two even comparable? I looked at screen shots for both of them, and to my very new-to-the-world-of-linux eyes, they seemed to look similar, but maybe I am missing something.
I do want to learn how to navigate in Ubuntu CE, but if there are easier ways to learn and get it done right, I would also rather save precious time with my family than learning how to do it a long, tedious, difficult way.

If eSword is just way better than JSword, is there an easier way to get it onto my computer and working, than installing through Wine?

[retiree]

It will have to run under WINE and it will have to be tweaked a little to run on Ubuntu. Look at the thread by DAVID and follow his instructions. It took me a while to get it right, but I finally did and it is a good program with a lot of resources. Regards, Clayton

[retiree]

I forgot, but I am talking about E-Sword. I have not been able to get J-Sword to run yet.

[david_kt]

If eSword is just way better than JSword, is there an easier way to get it onto my computer and working, than installing through Wine?

In that case you have to wait for Jeremy to get his laptop back, and wait for him to make the deb program for you to install e-sword.

Unfortunately I am just a user, not programmer. I am thinking to make a script for easy installation but that would take time as I am new to this area as well. But if you try to follow the instruction I give you before, it would help to increase your knowledge of using linux in general, and wine in particular. That instruction is not for ubuntu ce, but for ubuntu, but it could also been used in any other linux distro running wine.

DK

[MonkeeSage]

Are these two even comparable? I looked at screen shots for both of them, and to my very new-to-the-world-of-linux eyes, they seemed to look similar, but maybe I am missing something.
I do want to learn how to navigate in Ubuntu CE, but if there are easier ways to learn and get it done right, I would also rather save precious time with my family than learning how to do it a long, tedious, difficult way.

If eSword is just way better than JSword, is there an easier way to get it onto my computer and working, than installing through Wine?

In terms of features, they are very similar (JSword uses the SWORD project as a backend, so it supports all the same modules and features like cross-refs., strong's numbers and so on). Jsword has a really ugly default GUI using the Java SWING Metal theme. There is a way to make it use the GTK look and feel, but it's still being worked on, and you'd have to get the source from SVN and compile it to Java bytecode, which a big pain. You'd probably do better using GnomeSword or Bibletime (both are in the respositories), which are, respectively, native GNOME / KDE frontends for the SWORD project.

Ps. It's technically possible to view and dump e-Sword modules with mdbtools and import them as SWORD modules. Someday I may write a program to automatically do that. It wouldn't be too awful hard.

Pss. There's also a really nice new GUI based on the SWORD project, using python and wxWindows. It's called bpbible, but currently it takes a bit of work (http://code.google.com/p/bpbible/wiki/RunningBPBible) to get it running. Attached is a screenshot.