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GNOME Dictionary |
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The GNOME Dictionary displaying the definitions for
Dictionary. |
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Developer: |
Emmanuele Bassi |
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Latest release: |
2.16.2 /
6 November
2006 |
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Preview release: |
2.17.1 /
8 January
2007 |
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OS: |
Unix-like |
| Use: |
DICT Client |
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License: |
GPL |
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Website: |
[1] |
GNOME Dictionary, also identified as
gnome-dictionary, is a
DICT client written in C by
Emmanuele Bassi and others. It is part of the
open-source GNOME
desktop software suite, inside the
gnome-utils meta-package. This allows users of GNOME to look
up words on dictionary sources.
gnome-dictionary was at first an independent
DICT
protocol client called gdict, created by Bradford
Hovinen, Spiros Papadimitriou and Mike Hughes[1];
it was included inside the
gnome-utils meta-package during the 1.x release cycle. As a
companion to the original application was also added an
applet for
gnome-panel.
After the 2.0 release of GNOME, due to lack of direct
maintainership, the code base of gdict passed the point of being
maintainable. In October 2005, the current maintainer of
gnome-dictionary
Emmanuele Bassi decided to rewrite the application and
applet from scratch, removing the old (and mostly deprecated)
code[2].
The new gnome-dictionary was added to GNOME during the 2.13
development cycle and became part of the 2.14 GNOME release. It
supports multiple dictionary sources, printing the definitions
found and saving them to a text file, and has a simpler user
interface. The logic of the application and the applet has been
moved inside its own
shared library called libgdict which can be used by third
party applications. As of July 2006 the development version of
gnome-dictionary became feature equivalent to the pre-2.14
release[3],
with the addition of the list of similar words found (also known
as speller).
Other GNOME dictionary clients
Fantasdic is another
free
DICT client for the GNOME desktop, written in the
Ruby programming language using the bindings for the GNOME
platform libraries.
References
- ^
gdict ChangeLog
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Email on the gnome-utils mailing list about the re-design
- ^
Announce on Emmanuele Bassi's blog about the speller widget
Categories:
DICT clients |
GNOME