GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 349075
[HANDLER] Spanish dictionary (RAE) look up
Last modified: 2011-07-10 02:23:33 UTC
I've written a handler to look up Spanish words in the RAE's dictionary (the maximum Spanish language authority). It just shows the definition's web page on the browser.
Created attachment 69814 [details] Spanish dictionary look up handler
Hi, I have a bookmarklet for this same purpose and compare it with yours and have two suggestions: - Have you try words with accents?, if they don't work maybe you have to encode[1] the word (my bookmarklet uses encode function)... - Also I think we could use the 'TIPO_BUS=2' option to also match words similar to the one searched in case that is not found (e.g. search 'camion' and have 'camión' as an option instead of just a 'not found' page) [1] http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gnome-vfs-2.0/gnome-vfs-20-gnome-vfs-utils.html#gnome-vfs-escape-string
First of all, thanks for your suggestions Nelson. I have tried words with accents and they work pretty well with my handler. No need to use the encode function. I don't like the idea of using 'TIPO_BUS=2' option because it doesn't look up the word, just tells you if it exists and what words are similar to the one you wrote. You have to choose then the word from a list to read its definition. With this option, looking up a word isn't automatic, so I prefer not to use it.
Ok, seems I'd better suggested 'TIPO_BUS=3', that will look up the word and only show you the option list on a mispelled word, also this is the default option on rae's website...
New handlers are not accepted in core distribution. You are free to keep this bug as a version tracker but users have to manually download and install the handlers (until newstuff manager)
deskbar-applet development has been stalled [1]. Maintainers don't have future development plan so i am closing the bugs as WONTFIX. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-June/msg00073.html