Dictionary was my first serious #GNOME application; I wrote during the 2.14 development cycle (late 2005) it to replace the old gdict utility that was written for GNOME 1.2 and ported to GNOME 2.0
For my sins, I ended up maintaining the gnome-utils package starting with GNOME 2.14 (2006), until we split it up for GNOME 3.4 (2012)
Other people picked up the project, but in the end there's just so much you can do with a DICT client; people are always surprised once they find out how hard, complicated, and expensive it is to actually have a dictionary, so punting to other projects is the simplest solution
For a while, I hoped people would pick up the code, drop the awful DICT client implementation I wrote, and replace it with a Wiktionary view. Alas, it wasn't meant to be
So: godspeed, Dictionary. You did good by me, and I am happy I wrote you. You were the best I could do as a new contributor, and I hope other people found you useful, even for a little bit
Emmanuele Bassi
in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • • •Dictionary was my first serious #GNOME application; I wrote during the 2.14 development cycle (late 2005) it to replace the old gdict utility that was written for GNOME 1.2 and ported to GNOME 2.0
For my sins, I ended up maintaining the gnome-utils package starting with GNOME 2.14 (2006), until we split it up for GNOME 3.4 (2012)
Emmanuele Bassi
in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • • •Other people picked up the project, but in the end there's just so much you can do with a DICT client; people are always surprised once they find out how hard, complicated, and expensive it is to actually have a dictionary, so punting to other projects is the simplest solution
For a while, I hoped people would pick up the code, drop the awful DICT client implementation I wrote, and replace it with a Wiktionary view. Alas, it wasn't meant to be
Emmanuele Bassi
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