hi; On 6 October 2014 16:27, Nirbheek Chauhan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <[email protected]> wrote: >> anybody looking for an *actual* dictionary. any and all replacements >> are actually worse, and the only half-decent, maintained, and free (as >> in beer) dictionary source we can use is Wiktionary, for which we >> could simply ship an epiphany-based Web app anyway. >> > > If anyone wants to work on a replacement dictionary UI, I'd vote for > something similar to spotlight integrated into GNOME Shell or > spell-integration in GTK+ rather than a separate app. The dictionary > integration in the Kindle, iOS, and OS X is much more useful than a > discrete app (saves a context switch, less effort, etc).
I think we should have some integration at a platform level — i.e. "dictionary as a service" — that apps and the shell can use to show word definitions. I *definitely* don't think we should integrate this stuff in the shell as a default; the shell is not the kitchen sink, and it cannot display large quantities of text. an app can provide a shell search provider fairly easily, and it can expose a DBus API that shows a bubble at given coordinates with the text definition for those apps opting in. ciao, Emmanuele. -- http://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
