- Gnome-dictionary
Infobox Software
name = GNOME Dictionary
caption = The GNOME Dictionary displaying the definitions forDictionary .
developer =Emmanuele Bassi
latest_release_version = 2.20.0.1
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latest_preview_version =
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operating_system =Unix-like
genre =DICT Client
license = GPL
website = [http://live.gnome.org/GnomeUtils]GNOME Dictionary, also identified as gnome-dictionary, is a
DICT client written in C byEmmanuele Bassi and others. It is part of theopen-source GNOME desktop software suite, inside thegnome-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 [ [http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-utils/trunk/gnome-dictionary/ChangeLog?view=markup gdict ChangeLog] ] ; 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 anapplet forgnome-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 [ [http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-utils-list/2005-October/msg00004.html Email on the gnome-utils mailing list about the re-design] ] .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 [ [http://log.emmanuelebassi.net/archives/2006/07/rainbows-and-pots-of-gold/ Announce on Emmanuele Bassi's blog about the speller widget] ] , with the addition of the list of similar words found (also known as "speller").
Other GNOME dictionary clients
Fantasdic is another freeDICT client for the GNOME desktop, written in theRuby programming language using the bindings for the GNOME platform libraries.References
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