Bug#374268: About gnome-dictionary (and bug 347268)

[Emmanuele Bassi]

Hi,

I'm the gnome-dictionary author and gnome-utils co-maintainer.  The
fastest way to add a dictionary source is using the Preferences dialog,
which is the same for both the dictionary application and applet (Edit
-> Preferences or right click on the applet, then Preferences).  The
correct procedure is also explained in the dictionary's user manual.

The dictionary was completely re-written (it was way past any chance of
maintainability) during the 2.12 cycle.  Unfortunately, I did not add a
way to port the old settings because if the format and storage of the
new dictionary is totally different from the previous (the change was
necessary in order to support multiple dictionary servers without having
to replace the current settings); I also could not add a dictionary
source for a local dictionary because I cannot assume in any way that
the user has installed a local dictionary server.

If you don't want to configure using the UI, dropping a file named
"local.desktop" with content:

  [Dictionary Source]
  Transport=dictd
  Hostname=localhost
  Port=2628

in the ${HOME}/.gnome2/gnome-dictionary directory will create a
dictionary source for the local dictionary server; this might also help
for multiple deployments or multi-user installations.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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