On 2025-08-06 07:29:13 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > I also note that the Description for stardict does not mention > that it is primarily a client for remote servers. Compare the > Description for "dict": > > Description: dictionary client > This package provides a client application to query a dictd server. > The client-server protocol is TCP-based; the server may then be local or > accessed through the network. > . > The DICT Development Group maintains several public servers which can > be accessed from any machine connected to the Internet. The default > configuration is to query one of these servers first. This may be > changed in the configuration file /etc/dictd/dict.conf. > . > > > That's an informative description.
Yes, and also in the dict(1) man page. And another very important difference is that to do a dict query, the user needs to do this explicitly. On the opposite, stardict scans selections from other applications and do the associated query without asking the user first. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
