Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-25 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 01:42, S Page wrote: > There are a dozen dictionary extensions for Firefox, do any of those > work in Browse? > http://www.dailyblogtips.com/dictionary-extensions-for-firefox/ and > comments mention a few. Extensions that don't use anything firefox-specific can be used in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-23 Thread S Page
There are a dozen dictionary extensions for Firefox, do any of those work in Browse? http://www.dailyblogtips.com/dictionary-extensions-for-firefox/ and comments mention a few. > 3) Language detection. The HTML lang attribute? 95% of everything will be browser-based in the near future. Cheers, -

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-11 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 00:06, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> >> 2) Stemming. Some words (eg: hurried) are not in the dictionary. In >> such a case, do we perform some kind of stemming on the word ? This >> does make things more complicated,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 00:06, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > Hello, > > Based on comments raised in this thread and during yesterday's design > meeting, I have made some changes: video at > http://people.sugarlabs.org/sayamindu/global_dictionary_second_try.ogv > In case of multiple selections, the w

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-10 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, Based on comments raised in this thread and during yesterday's design meeting, I have made some changes: video at http://people.sugarlabs.org/sayamindu/global_dictionary_second_try.ogv In case of multiple selections, the words are no longer in the form of a set of hyperlinks, one can choose

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-08 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 06:21:43PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> > I'd prefer to see all meanings for a word within the set of >> > dictionaries chosen.  If you are learning two langs

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-08 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 06:21:43PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > > I'd prefer to see all meanings for a word within the set of > > dictionaries chosen.  If you are learning two langs, you should see > > relevant words in both languages whe

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-07 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > I'd prefer to see all meanings for a word within the set of > dictionaries chosen.  If you are learning two langs, you should see > relevant words in both languages when you select a string. > > SJ Well - we can let the user choose multiple d

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-07 Thread Samuel Klein
I'd prefer to see all meanings for a word within the set of dictionaries chosen. If you are learning two langs, you should see relevant words in both languages when you select a string. SJ On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 13:27, Sayamindu Dasgupta wr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 13:27, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 02:10, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >>> Hello, >>> I was wondering about having a global "dictionary" key in sugar, just >>> like the view source key. When you sel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-07 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 02:10, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> Hello, >> I was wondering about having a global "dictionary" key in sugar, just >> like the view source key. When you select a word (or words), and press >> that key, a window should p

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-07 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> I was wondering about having a global "dictionary" key in sugar, just >> like the view source key. When you select a word (or words), and press >> that key, a window should pop up, showing the meaning of tha

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-07 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:51 AM, sankarshan wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta > wrote: > >> I was wondering about having a global "dictionary" key in sugar, just >> like the view source key. When you select a word (or words), and press >> that key, a window should pop up

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 02:10, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > Hello, > I was wondering about having a global "dictionary" key in sugar, just > like the view source key. When you select a word (or words), and press > that key, a window should pop up, showing the meaning of that word (or > those words).

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-06 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > I was wondering about having a global "dictionary" key in sugar, just > like the view source key. When you select a word (or words), and press > that key, a window should pop up, showing the meaning of that word (or > those words). I think it's a great idea, very much i

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-06 Thread sankarshan
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > I was wondering about having a global "dictionary" key in sugar, just > like the view source key. When you select a word (or words), and press > that key, a window should pop up, showing the meaning of that word (or > those words). There

[Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-06 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, I was wondering about having a global "dictionary" key in sugar, just like the view source key. When you select a word (or words), and press that key, a window should pop up, showing the meaning of that word (or those words). There can be a control panel entry to choose what dictionary to us