Mac OS has this feature as a popover. You can select text anywhere and get a "Look Up %word" item in the context menu.
A while back, Christian had suggested that we could do such a thing with a (Possibly Contractor powered) GTK module. Best Regards, Daniel Foré El oct 9, 2012, a las 11:43 p.m., Cassidy James <cass...@elementaryos.org> escribió: > Sam, > > Interesting concept. It reminds me a lot of the most recent update to Google > Books on Android with the definition and place cards. I'm not sure this would > be the best implementation across all apps, but could be useful in reading > apps. ;) > > Check out the blueprint Sergey linked to for my desired implementation. > > On Oct 9, 2012 11:47 PM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" > <ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote: >> Somebody came up with this before you: >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/contractor/+spec/add-to-secondary-click >> Still, thanks for the mockup :) >> >> 2012/10/10 Sam Tate <s...@mtate.me.uk> >>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/118289670350117354716/posts/e7HCNnvuDqs >>> Always helps to reference the thing that you are talking about in your >>> email ;) >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> A rather foolish Sam Tate >>> >>> On 9 October 2012 22:33, Sam Tate <s...@mtate.me.uk> wrote: >>>> Greetings, >>>> >>>> I took Dan's awesome AppCentre Mockup and added a dictionary overlay on >>>> it. This would work system wide (so for any app that has select-able text) >>>> and mousing over it would expand it to the larger centered one. >>>> >>>> Maybe in the future it could house other functions too? >>>> >>>> Just something to think about :P >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Sam Tate >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> >> -- >> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff >> OS architect @ elementary >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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