Re: gnome-dictionary for offline usage?

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 15:59 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
> 
> On Mon, 8 May 2006, Oliver Gerlich wrote:
> 
> >  are there plans to make gnome-dictionary work with a local dictionary
> >  file as well, so it can be used offline?
> 
> You can already use it offline. All you need to do is install the dictd daemon 
> on your computer and install the desired dictionaries, and set the dictionary 
> server in gnome-dictionary to localhost.

True.

I'm currently writing a transport for local dictionary files, by the
way.

> Alternatively, you may try StarDict, which supports more dictionary file 
> formats than gnome-dictionary does.

I'd very much like to support StarDict dictionaries too, but the code
base of the StarDict library is in such a complete mess that would
really take me an inane amount of time just to clean that up to a usable
state.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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