dict plasma applet

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Saturday 08 November 2008, Nick Shaforostoff wrote:
> i've done first steps in writing a dataengine for multitran-data
> (multitran.sf.net, multitran.ru), and also plan to write
> qstardict-based dataengine.

would make most sense, obviously, if they were all in the same dataengine.

> so i will adapt dictionary plasmoid to support several dataengines
> (maybe even scan for "dict-*"), and change key-value interface:
> -special key to detect whether a dataengine returned useful results
> -special key to get display name for a dataengine
> -come up with a way to select only some of dictionaries a dataengine
> provides (so it doesn't loaded dictionaries that ain't used).

perhaps have the dict engine have a Dictionaries source that lists the 
available dictionaries; then request definitions from each dictionary from the 
applet.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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