On 7/8/07, Jesse Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I added a new icon for DictionaryReader, if you'd be interested in > using it (it fits better with the style of the new icons I've made). > > Also, could we use Wiktionary, perhaps? > > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page
Thanx. I update it. Wiktioinary is a good choice, but it does not use dict protocol. There is a tool to convert its database into dict format so we can use it as local database. http://www.industree.org/guaka/wiki/Wik2dict If there is a way to parse Wiktioinary result from standard http, we probably can support it. Yen-Ju > > > J. > > > On Jul 7, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Yen-Ju Chen wrote: > > > I clean up DictionaryReader a little bit > > and the time to open database is cut by half (5-6 second now on my > > computer). > > If we want to ship a default dictionary with LiveCD, > > my suggestion is WordNet (ftp://ftp.dict.org/dict/pre/dict-wn-2.0- > > pre.tar.gz). > > Support for reading compressed file in DictionaryReader seems broken. > > So after untar the database under > > ~/GNUstep/Library/DictionaryReader/Dictionaries/, > > change the file name *.dz to *.gz, then gunzip it. > > You should get wn.dict and wn.index. > > There is a 1913 Webster dictionary, but it is too old, > > for example, 'Computer' is 'the one who computes'. :D > > > > I disable the history (back and forward icon) because it is broken. > > DictionaryReader was recently changed to use toolbar for search field. > > But search field in toolbar cannot become the first responder. > > Therefore, users have to click on the search field every time they > > want to search, > > instead of having cursor automatically in the search field when window > > get focus. > > So I probably will change it back later (not using toolbar). > > > > Have fun. > > > > Yen-Ju > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Etoile-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev > > _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
