GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 144378
Dictionary word completions
Last modified: 2021-06-10 11:23:02 UTC
Gnome Dictionary client (also other clients for dict protocols) don't provide support for word completion. With attached patch you can write a word and see possible completions for it in the windows under the textbox.
Created attachment 28706 [details] patch with support for completions
I am unable to open your patch - it looks like a binary file. Could you attach an ASCII version of your patch ?
Created attachment 33442 [details] [review] gunzipped version of the patch As you wished, I've attached the ASCII version of the patch.
I have tried your patch with gnome-utils 2.6.2. I have enabled the completion in the preferences, but I cannot see any difference. Can you give an example of how I could see the completion in action ?
Ok, I got it working. It's very nice. Couple of comments : The list of completion is ordered alphabetically, which is nice, but backwards - ie I tried "house" and the top of the list is filled with "housewife" and such, while "house" is located at the bottom of the list. The other way around would make more sense. Do you think it would be possible to show the same kind of list in the gdict applet ? By limiting the number of choices to ~10. Would it be possible to spell check the entered word directly in the same window ? e.g if I type "dyctionary" it could propose alternate spellings. Then we could get rid of the spelling dialog altogether. Thanks a lot for working on this, it's a lot of work you've done there.
gnome-dictionary was modified recently to switch to a regular GtkEntry. Did you do any more work on this ?
*** Bug 523278 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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