From koffice-devel  Sat May 19 17:56:46 2001
From: Cristian Tibirna <tibirna () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 17:56:46 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: Patch: thesaurus using wordnet
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=99029501406248

On Saturday 19 May 2001 11:53, David Faure wrote:
> On Sunday 06 May 2001 16:46, Daniel Naber wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
> sorry for taking this long to answer this mail....
>
> > here's a very unfinished patch that adds a thesaurus to KWord. Several
> > things need to be decided before this can go in. Also I cannot do this
> > all alone, but I need quite some help. Anyway, I think it's such a nice
> > feature that people will surely support me :-)
>
> Yup ;-)
>
> > You need Wordnet to use this:
> > http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ (it's ~13 MB big!)
> >
> > Issues:
> >
> > 1. Wordnet 1.6 has a bug that makes it crash often. It is very easy to
> > fix (see their release notes), but it is in the release and a new release
> > is not in sight. Working around the bug is possible but not nice
> > (involves parsing text output).
>
> Really ?
> I'm a very happy Wordnet-1.6 user. This seems to be a very old release btw,
> I've been using Wordnet-1.6 for ages.

I bet you know about kdict, the KDE dict protocol interface that can dig 
(thanks to the servers at dict.org) in merriam-webster and in wordnet at 
once? I use kdict a lot.

I believe making kdict a service/plugin/part would be very easy. 

CT
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