On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:51 AM, sankarshan <foss.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayami...@gmail.com> > 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 can be a control panel entry to choose what >> dictionary to use (eg: someone might want to have a English-Spanish >> dictionary instead of a English-English one, etc). > > Looks like good to have. I take it that you are suggesting that the > source -> target pattern for the dictionary be set only once and, then > on unless changed, adhered to throughout. I daresay that I'd find it a > wonderful application for a non-Sugar desktop too :) >
Yes - source target pattern would need to be set manually. It would be infinitely cooler if language detection could be done somehow, but I don't think that is feasible in the short term. -sdg- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel