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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Again: Kdict?
From:       Christian Gebauer <gebauer () bigfoot ! com>
Date:       2001-02-25 23:01:37
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Frerich Raabe wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 25 February 2001 22:57, David Faure wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 February 2001 21:35, Frerich Raabe wrote:
> > > On Sunday 25 February 2001 22:26, Christian Gebauer wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I would like to ask again if I should put Kdict into kdeutils (or
> > > > kdenetwork?).
> > > >
> > > > Kdict is a nice tool for querying DICT servers (www.dict.org) which
> > > > host dictionaries and similar databases.
> > > >
> > > > It features a web-browser-like GUI and comes with a panel applet and a
> > > > dcop-interface.
> > > >
> > > > The program is not very big (~5000 loc).
> > > >
> > > > Currently the user needs a internet connection or a local DICT server.
> > > > But I think it should be possible to add support for local databases in
> > > > the future (using the datafiles of the commercial babylon translator
> > > > and/or the orginal dict-datafiles).
> > > >
> > > > You can find screenshots and more informations on the homepage:
> > > > http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~gebauerc/kdict/
> > > >
> > > > The current version (0.5) could be released without major
> > > > modifications, what needs to be done is:
> > > >   * rewriting the old html-documentation
> > > >   * probably fixing some minor i18n problems
> > >
> > > Looks very cool, a great reinforcement for kdenetwork IMHO.
> >
> > If it works locally too, then it's not really related to networks per se.
> > I would rather see that one in kdeutils, no ?
> 
> ksirc works with a local IRC server too, korn hopefully works with a local
> POP3 server. Still, those two (and others which would run with local servers)
> are in kdenetwork. 
And many people use KNode with a local server like leafnode. But the point
of a mail- or newsreader is to communicate with other people, so the local
server only acts as a proxy.

> I think kdict should go into kdenetwork because it's way
> more useful if used with an internet connection (just like knewsticker would
> be rather boring with local RDF files).
Its easier to use the public dict.org server because you don't have to
setup the daemon and you don't have to download 20-40 MB of data files.
On the other side you can install uncommon databases of your choice on 
your private server and you will get excellent performance.

The main difference to RDFs is that the dict-databases are typically 
very static data, for example the webster's dictionary is from 1913 ;-)

Greetings
Christian
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