Re: Adding a feature to gnome-dictionary

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi Eduardo,

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 14:07 +0000, J. Eduardo Narros wrote:

> Firstly, thank you guys for the job you all are doing. I just come
> aboard with gnome-utils because I am working on one feature I would
> like to see in gnome-dictionary, I have called it "Watch clipboard".

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Interesting feature.  If I understand the design correctly, it can be
achieved by creating an idle or a timeout function which in turn calls
gtk_clipboard_request_text(), am I right?

> [1] Where do you think is a good place (interface/code) to put this
> feature?

The right place to add such a feature would be inside the GdictWindow
and GdictApplet widgets; the preference UI knob, instead, should go into
the GdictPrefDialog widget, which controls the preferences for both the
applet and the application.

Please, open a bug for the gdict component of the gnome-utils product
inside Gnome Bugzilla.

> [2] Are there any plans to add to gnome-dictionary the feature of
> becoming an icon when minimized? If not but you think is a good
> feature I can do it.

For "icon" you mean an icon inside the notification area?

There are no plans, and I frankly do not believe it would be a good
feature; let's not pollute the notification area with icons which aren't
used for status: this is not windows.  The notification area is meant
for stuff like hardware events or alarms.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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