[Okular-devel] translation lookup support

Florian Graessle holehan at kde.org
Tue Jan 22 22:16:51 CET 2008


Hi Tobias,

Tobias Koenig wrote on 22.01.2008 15:44 Uhr:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:15:41AM +0100, Florian Graessle wrote:
>> Tobias Koenig wrote on 22.01.2008 0:31 Uhr:
> Hej Florian,
> 
>>> Does it make sense?
>> It does and would be a valuable addition not only to okular but to 
>> office suites, web browsers, chat and mail applications, ... in fact any 
>> application that uses text.
>>
>>> Does it belong into okular?
>> Not really. It should be "something other applications can also benefit 
>> from" - non-technically-spoken ;)
> So Okular should just provide a hook in the RMB menu which calls an
> external application with the selected text as argument?

Yes, I think so. Ideally there should be one more way to invoke the 
lookup via a menu entry to get the feature more exposed and accessible.

Now all we need is that external application... ;)

   Florian


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