On 05/08/2025 08:52, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
On Mon, 2025-08-04 at 10:21 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2025-08-04 14:40:25 +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
Yes, that's a feature: it will lookup your selections in local and
online dictionaries, and by default it searches English-Chinese
dictionaries.
[...]
Such a feature should have never been enabled by default. At least
under X11 since as you say, for Wayland:
Then don't use stardict, there's plenty of alternatives :)
I agree with Vincent that without *explicit* user consent applications
should not send to remote servers what they gathered by listening for
changes of primary selection or clipboard. Even if upstream packages
(source code, flatpak, snap) have similar features enabled by default, I
would expect from Debian maintainers to change defaults to be more
careful with user data.
Certainly there are alternatives, but this kind of bad surprise is
unfortunate. I used StarDict more than a decade ago. Later I decided
that do not need it any more, but general impression was positive. For
me the raised issue is a reason to avoid it in future and to recommend
against it.
P.S.
Kind clipboard managers respect hints like
application/x-kde-passwordManagerHint. I tried
https://codesearch.debian.net and have not noticed stardict packages in
results.
