[Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

[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 <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 13:27, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 02:10, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> 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). 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).
>>>> I did a bit of hacking last weekend to come up with a rough mockup for
>>>> the feature.
>>>> There's a screencast at
>>>> http://people.sugarlabs.org/sayamindu/global_dictionary.ogv
>>>> (it works with all activities, and not just with Browse - and the
>>>> window pops up when I press the key)
>>>> Does it make sense for Sugar ? If it does, I think I can beat it into
>>>> shape over the next few weekends.
>>>
>>> Looks really great, congrats!
>>>
>>
>> Thank you very much :)
>>
>>> I'm adding it to the topics of the next design meeting, which may be
>>> next weekend.
>>>
>>
>> Sounds good. I am looking forward to some ideas about the UI.
>>
>>> Btw, which external dependencies brings? How would it work in
>>> multilingual environments?
>>>
>>
>> Right now I am using python-dictdlib[1] to get the definitions from a
>> dictd formatted database[2]. It may probably make sense to turn the
>> definition and dictionary management part into a desktop independent
>> dbus based library, and have a sugar control panel extension and a
>> globalkey/deviceicon extension to leverage that.
>> Alternatively, we can also consider using a web-based approach, where
>> we query dict.org (this means that we won't have to ship the large
>> dictionary dumps) - but I don't want to rely on a internet connection
>> being present for this feature to be usable.
>>
>> As for multilingual environments, I propose to have a control panel
>> extension which would let the user choose which dictionary to use. I
>> think would be similar to the speech module:
>> http://interdimensionmedia.com/scratch/settings-10.jpg
>
> Wouldn't be a bit uncomfortable for bilingual people or those learning
> a new language? Or are you suggesting that in the control panel you
> would set the languages you will use and then in the alert you would
> choose the current one?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> Thanks,
>> Sayamindu
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/python-dictdlib
>> [2] http://www.dict.org/w/databases/start
>> --
>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
>>
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