I have now sent an email to Paul myself, asking him about the URL launch scheme of the dict.cc app. I tried a few "blind guesses" myself, but couldn't get dict.cc to launch from within Marvin.
If Paul replies, I'll let you guys know. If Paul is
very responsive, he might also implement an
x-callback button in the dict.cc app. I'm not holding my breath, because I have yet to encounter a developer as responsive as Kris.
I could also write to ABBYY and ask them to implement an
x-callback button in Lingvo. But, since it took ABBYY about half a year to respond to Kris when he asked them about their URL launch scheme... well, I'm not optimistic.
The dict.cc dictionaries are nice, although not on the top professional level of dictionaries offered in Lingvo. Another limiting feature they have is that they only focus on language pairs
German <-> another language or
English <-> another language. So, you probably wouldn't find a dictionary like
Spanish <-> French there. Lingvo is more versatile, offering many language pairs of the
any language <->
any language type, although, being a Russian app, Lingvo also has its focus on a specific language (Russian).
Marco's suggestion is for Kris to develop an "empty interface" in Marvin, into which Marvin users could later independently load the dict.cc datasets, on their own responsibility, even if it were (ostensibly, possibly) to contradict dict.cc terms of use. I wonder if Kris would be willing to develop such an "empty interface" for dictionaries inside Marvin, and if so, if the display of those dictionaries could then be customised in the "Kindle way" (no pop-up bubble overlaying the text, but show the definitions towards the top or bottom of the screen; or, let the user decide in what way the definitions/translations should be shown). These are probably futuristic considerations at this point.
