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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Again: Kdict?
From:       Frerich Raabe <frerichraabe () gmx ! de>
Date:       2001-02-26 8:27:01
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On Monday 26 February 2001 01:29, Christian Gebauer wrote:
> Frerich Raabe wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 February 2001 22:57, David Faure wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.

Yes, but I'm not quite sure whether many users will download the relatively 
hugh databases for local use.

> > 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.

I dare to claim that the most users will use this as an online tool, just 
like many other apps which query databases (as centralized databases are 
obviously a Good Thing(tm) in this context). If I would download kdeutils I 
would probably expect some more or less nifty tools which would generally 
make things easier but don't require much more than a running KDE desktop.

kdenetwork in turn should contain tiny tools (like KNewsTicker) as well as 
full featured applications (KMail, KNode, you name it) which will probably 
much more usable to most users if used with a functional online connection.

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

Wow! :-)

- Frerich

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