Re: Fantasdic, ask for translations

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 21:11 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> > It seems to complement what gnome-utils/gnome-dictionary already does?
> > (gnome-dictionary is a DICT client itself)
> >
> > In what ways does it differ?
> 
> Part of the reason that this project was accepted to be hosted in
> GNOME CVS was that it's written in Ruby, and we don't have many
> Ruby applications at home.  So I think having Fantasdic helps our
> Ruby bindings, as well as a gnome-dictionary dup written in a
> higher level language that can more easily experiment new
> features, that we may want to add to gnome-dictionary later...

(with my hat of gnome-utils co-maintainer and gnome-dictionary author
on)

Exactly. As Behdad said, fantasdic contains features that GNOME
Dictionary does not have (and some that won't have, at least for the
time being), so it's a good place to test and experiment; also, since
GNOME Dictionary exposes its main engine and UI inside a shared library,
which can easily be wrapped by any of the language bindings already
wrapping any other GNOME library, part of the functionalities of the
Dictionary might be used inside fantasdic.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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