That's a neat way of achieving the same functionality but unfortunately there exists a large section of laymen users who do not use keyboard so much as we want them to, for them a right click to select and copy should put the "Look Up" menu in front of them that is to say, it's much more discoverable usability wise :)
There are definitely alternate ways of achieving this functionality with minimal tweaking of existing libraries, the mailing list has given me many pointers to consider so thank you :) On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Vlasov Vitaly <vnig...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > Hmm... > I use goldendict for similar functionality. goldendict has a special key > (default win+alt). When special key is pressed, current selected word will > be translated in pop-up window, as it is shown in your first screenshot. > How does goldendict do it? I think he scan all keypress actions from X > server, may be Qt helps him. As I know, GNOME can add user's action to > keypress. May be you need hack GNOME dict and GNONE, not gtk+. > > I think, adding new context menu to gtk+ is a bad choice. gtk+ is toolkit > for making GUI and is not suitable for this purpose. gtk+ is used on > systems that do not have GNOME dict or GNOME. New context menu is useless > for those systems. > > How I see the solution to this problem: GNOME must have special key with > action "look up word". On this action GNOME must send selected word (I > think it's not a big problem to get selected word) to GNOME dict. dict > shows pop-up window with definition. > > Good luck with this feature. > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
