An offline tool for this is kinda cool, but it should be noted that applications should not sit in the notification area, it is *not* a 'tray'. It really should just be a standalone app, you may make a separate panel applet if you desire (or even better, write a deskbar plugin).
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear friends, > I am glad to announce release 0.9.1 of Artha ~ A handy off-line English > thesaurus/dictionary based on WordNet with regular expressions based search > feature added to it with this release. > > Artha houses distinct features like global hot key look-ups, regular > expressions based search to locate a vaguely known word, passive desktop > notifications, suggestions for misspelled words, etc. Once executed, it sits > on the system tray monitoring for a pre-set hot key combination. When the > user selects text from any window and presses this hot key, Artha pops-up > with the word looked up. Should the user prefer passive notifications over > the app. popping-up, Artha's 'Notify' option does this. Apart from showing > definitions, it also shows Synonyms, Antonyms, Derivatives, Similar Terms, > Attributes, Domain Terms, Pertainyms and 5 more. When a word is misspelled, > it shows spelling suggestions too. > > Download (src and binaries): > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=250410 > > Code (release 0.9.1): > svn co http://artha.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/artha/tags/0.9.1 > > Thanks! > > P.S.: This is my first open-source application. Thanks for all the support > you guys gave me! > > Best Regards > Sundaram > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list > > -- Stefan Nuxoll <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
