Re: glossary (was: Re: GNOME 2 tasks)

[Michael JasonSmith <mpj17 it canterbury ac nz>]

Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> Ideal scenario: you right-click on any word you do not know, select
> "look it up in the glossary", and if found, it'd produce a small
> floating window containing the def'n of this word from the
> glossary. Or the definition shows up in a separate pane of the doc
> browser - something like this.
> 
> How realistic is this?
It sounds a bit like Wordinspect:
	http://home.tir.com/~sgifford/wordinspect/
It will lookup (in a Dict database) a word that is currently selected in
an X application and pop up a window with the definition.  It is quite a
handy little tool when dealing with newsgroups and mailing lists that
use a lot if acronyms.  

One solution would be to translate the Gnome glossary into a Dict DB
that the myriad of Dict front ends could use.  The problem is that the
user would have to have a Dict server running, or have a network
connection to a Dict server.
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Michael JasonSmith        http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/