Feeling a little better, today: temperature steadily under 37°C, little to no headaches.
I’ve hacked the last bits of the Add Source dialog of Dictionary, and committed away a bunch of other fixes, including one for a crasher spotted by Paolo Borelli, a bunch of UI fixes by Dennis Cranston and corrections for my bad english by Clytie Siddall. Thanks to all of them: with their help, the next release of Dictionary will suck a lot less.
The Add Source dialog makes me feel a little proud:
Here you can see the dialog when you click the “Add” button; you can set the description of the source and its transport. Choosing a transport will automagically show the preferences bound to that transport:
Obviously, since libgdict supports only the Dictionary Protocol transport, you have only one choice, but expect other transports to be available from the next release of GNOME. The “Advanced Settings” pane will expose the Database and Strategy settings:
Those two combo boxes should automagically query the dictionary source using the GdictContext bound to the transport the user has chosen; unfortunately, they don’t – yet. I hope to get around this issue before the code freeze, but I really don’t know if I’m going to make it in time.
If you want to have a look at how it all works, I’ve prepared a little screencast (courtesy of Istanbul).
[hacking]
[gnome]
[gnome+dictionary]