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Bug 137252 - Cross-Language Translation Support
Cross-Language Translation Support
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 167366
Product: gnome-dictionary
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Windows
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-dictionary-maint
gnome-dictionary-maint
: 311824 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-03-15 15:36 UTC by Matt T. Proud
Modified: 2014-11-02 10:48 UTC
See Also:
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Description Matt T. Proud 2004-03-15 15:36:30 UTC 
Since I have zero experience with the gdict back-end, I know not whether
this is possible or not; but, it would prove interesting and helpful if at
some point gdict would have the ability to translate between multiple
languages.
Comment 1 John Fleck 2004-03-16 03:50:49 UTC 
gdict uses the "dict" protocol to connect to an arbitrary dictionary
server. You can specify whichever one you want (it uses dict.org by
default). So if there's a dictionary server that does translations,
this capability already exists, and if there isn't (I don't know of
any) it's not likely that gdict will ever provide this.
Comment 2 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2006-01-13 16:47:53 UTC 
*** Bug 311824 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Denis Jacquerye 2007-03-18 21:14:06 UTC 
A possible solution is to use freedict translation dictionaries.
Have dictd running with the freedict installed, point gdict to that machine.

It would be nice to have a ‘3-clicks’ way of doing this.
Comment 4 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2007-03-18 21:20:53 UTC 
unfortunately, we can't ship a local source with gnome-dictionary because we do not install a dictd server too.  the distributions might provide such integration, by having a "dictd-gnome-integration" package which installs a dot-desktop file containing the dictionary source inside the right directory.

also, gnome-dictionary will start supporting locally installed dictionary files (using the same format dictd uses), so you'd ideally won't even need a dictionary server running on your machine.
Comment 5 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2014-11-02 10:48:14 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 167366 ***