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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Again: Kdict?
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-02-26 12:17:46
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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. 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).
> 
I would agree that having a local dict server is quite uncommon

Greetings, Stephan

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