[rekonq] Re: Google translate API and rekonq

[todd rme]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Rohan Garg <rohangarg at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi
> This is just a idea im throwing out on the Mailing list wondering if it
> would be possible to implement this in rekonq.
> Usually when im using rekonq and i come across a page in a foreign language
> ( a blog post for example ) i have to open chromium and get it translated,
> so i googled a bit and saw that Google has its own translation API's[1] .
> Now i havent gone through the API Docs due to the heavy load of exams, but
> was wondering if it would be possible to get the google translate feature
> into rekonq. I might work on this in January depending on whether or not its
> feasible to implement this.
> [1] http://code.google.com/apis/language/
> Regards
> Rohan Garg

Might it be better to have some sort of generic translation layer,
that can then use plug-ins to tie into various translation apis?  Even
if only google is being used right now, it would be easier to make a
more flexible system up-front then re-do everything from scratch when
someone want to implement a different translation api.  Ideally
something scripted so they can be distributed via GHNS.

-Todd