Comments on: The Hazards of Love

By: PomCompot

PomCompot — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:55:23 +0000

Just my two cents on this old now blog post. I fell here searching for a way to add custom dictionary to the dictionary-applet, but don’t found the way I need.

What I really need is Word Reference. It doesn’t provide any dict protocol. Only a open search plugin for Firefox and other enables browser. Maybe it’s a way to follow. But, in this case, the result is a web page, and not a definition list.

Don’t know really. The dict applet (and Gnome dictionary) must not disappeared but must provided more modern way to add sources.

By: marens

marens — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:10:47 +0000

“And how about integrating the Gnome Dictionnary in other app, like say Evince, to allow me look up words I don’t know or whose meaning I’m not sure ?”

Great idea. highlight word, right mouse, translate. that would be very helpful when reading english ebooks

what i use:
EN->DE and DE->EN @ dict.leo.org via the ff-search

urbandictionary.com via the ff-search

and now that i’ ve seen it here define: word via the ff-search :->

By: ldng

ldng — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:08:18 +0000

And how about integrating the Gnome Dictionnary in other app, like say Evince, to allow me look up words I don’t know or whose meaning I’m not sure ?

By: Effy

Effy — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:38:31 +0000

I’m afraid I tend to to turn to my OS X machine and look things up on its built-in, offline dictionary.

By: Max

Max — Sat, 09 May 2009 21:24:55 +0000

I use define: in Google, wiktionary and wordreference.com, probably in that order.

By: Ismael Olea

Ismael Olea — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:36:26 +0000

I use:

- main Spanish dictionary: http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/
- main pan-Hispanic dictonary: http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/
- http://www.diccionarios.com/, a paid service
- the define: google search
- ES/EN wikipedias

By: Juanjo

Juanjo — Sat, 09 May 2009 09:34:58 +0000

I can’t live without wordreference.com.

I use it from firefox search add-on, and I’m very happy.

I’ve tested dictionary applet and I must agree: it’s disappointing.

By: Daf

Daf — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:40:32 +0000

Jamie pretty much described my setup: local dict server with a bunch of dictionaries, command-line dict client, fall back to OED and Google Translate (which I have a command-line client for).

By: ebassi

ebassi — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:42:18 +0000

@suoko: oh, please.

By: suoko

suoko — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:00:27 +0000

in the meantime let’s replace it with fantasdic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NyvppLmZZw