xfce4-dict and WordNet

[Liviu Andronic]

On 8/25/08, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> Then I still don't understand what you are requesting. Do you wish
>  direct support of the wordnet database without the dictd server?
>
This was the post triggerer, but since communicating with dictd(-wn)
works with actual code it is probably not worth implementing it. Only
culprits, that the version is older and the dictionary seems
incomplete.



>  You can of course use the wordreference.com resource as a web search
>  with xfce4-dict. Then simply your default browser with the results page
>  will be opened. But displaying any contents directly in xfce4-dict is
>  not possible for legal reasons, AFAIK.
>
I could mention StarDict-3.0.1, which provides "full-text
translation", from Yahoo, Google, Altavista and others, with the
appropriate "Powered by ~" information, which I feel like a copyright
indicator. No idea, however, where they are from a legal perspective.



>  wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
>  n 1: a shortened form of a word or phrase
>  2: shortening something by omitting parts of it
>
Same results pop up in WR.com (which uses WordNet 2.0), so I imagine
this is what should be retrieved when searching through dictd-wn-2.0,
but currently is not.


>  > I also installed app-dicts/dictd-web1913, Webster's Revised Unabridged
>  > Dictionary (1913) for dict. I think it would, too, be of interest to
>  > xfce4-dict. For this dictionary I had no above-mentioned missing
>
>
> In what way would it be of any interest for xfce4-dict? I mean if you
>  already used it via dictd what else should xfce4-dict do?
>
Oh, I was certainly alone in this train of thoughts. Xfce4-dict could
feature Search with: Dict (local) and Dict (web). This for two
reasons: one, people could use local and web resources
"simultaneously", at least switching from one to the other would be
fast and two, it will, or some tooltip will indicate users that they
could use locally installed dictionaries.


Regards,
Liviu