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Idea #9698: One Dictionary, etc., and apps ONLY take from and add to that ONE dict., etc.

Written by Redrazor39 the 9 Jun 08 at 22:21. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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We should only have ONE dictionary instead of having a bunch of apps creating their own. I couldn't think of anything else this would apply to (maybe one contacts list or something) which is where the "etc." in the title is for.

Applications can add their own words and delete repeats from their own dictionaries.

This would maximize disk space efficiency, but don't go flaming or criticizing me about a dictionary not being a big thing. I don't JUST mean dictionaries. I mean everything that can be shared should be shared. I don't know specifically, but you might. Please post with suggestions, explanations, clarifications, and thoughts of the idea itself.
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Written by Redrazor39 the 9 Jun 08 at 22:21.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 00:21
Yes, a system-wide dictionary would be great.

droetker wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 05:37
even OOo uses 2: standard.dic and user.dic, AFAIK (am on a windows pc at work now, can't test it)

svergeylen wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 06:21
Yeah ! I agree

One big huge dictonnary will be very interresting ! Especially if it works offline.

I'm thinking about one dictionnary per language, and one more dictionnary for personnal words (file in my home directory)

Why not bind this dictionnary with an online traductor if needed ?

fcsonline wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 09:58
dup dup dup dup dup ...

DrakeJustice wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 19:38
doesn't that take away from the rights of the dictionary project's owners? if they thought of separating their .dic files from other apps, there must have been a decent reason... creator's of these dictionary programs have the right to include what libraries they want, and what dictionary files they want... a system wide 'ubuntu specific' dictionary already in place could help standardize these programs, because lots of users like lots of different dictionary apps...

nalimilan wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 20:41
This has recently been achieved in Fedora 10, so I expect the work will eventually come into Ubuntu as well...

Vadim P. wrote on the 14 Oct 08 at 11:44
All Gnome apps already share the same dictionary though. It's just KDE and Firefox that use their own one (which is hellishly annoying)

Auzy wrote on the 14 Oct 08 at 11:51
But whose fault is that? KDE are probably saying its gnomes fault for having their own. But yeah, this would be great...

glotz wrote on the 8 Nov 08 at 14:28
Everybody's fault. There's no standard.


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