Package: stardict Version: 2.4.3-5 Severity: important
Hello. After installing StarDict there are no dictionaries available. Even though the freedict dictionaries' packages are installed from Debian packages. The same dictionaries can be downloaded from the StarDict homepage, but all together they are quite a few megs. I did download and install the rpms from the StarDict homepage using alien to first transform them to debs. While this works, the download is too much for people using a modem and a real show stopper for people without internet access. A dictionary tool without dictionaries is pretty useless. Therefore I suggest that the freedict dictionaries available as Debian packages in the distribution are made available to StarDict. I tried linking the Debian packages' freedict-deu-eng as something like /usr/share/stardict/dic/freedict-deu-eng/* as they are installed a similar way (folder names are different) when I use the rpms. But these have an additional file *.ifo for each dictionary. Should there be any file format differences between StarDicts DICT dictionaries and those provided by Debian I suggest that a standardized file format be used in both cases to avoid redundant installation of the same data in different formats. Maybe it is a good idea to put DICT dictionaries in a common place and link to them from the specific dictionary tools. In this case I guess the dictionary packages' maintainers should cope with that. On the other hand, it should be a lot easier to add an existing dictionary from within StarDict. I suggest that StarDict offers an option to add dictionaries from within StarDict. This could be a simple file selection dialogue where one can select the path to the existing DICT dictionaries. I know this bug report might as well be called a 'wish'. But, as I said above, a dictionary tool without dictionaries is useless, so I think it can justifiably be called important. Kind regards Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-386 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages stardict depends on: ii gconf2 2.8.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-5 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.0-4 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.0-2 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libesd0 0.2.35-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.8-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.0-2 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.8.0-6 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.8.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.0-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.3-8 The GNOME virtual file-system libr ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-9 GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libgpg-error0 1.0-1 library for common error values an ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.14-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.6.0-3 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-3 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li ii libxml2 2.6.11-5 GNOME XML library ii stardict-common 2.4.3-5 International dictionary for GNOME ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
