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Old 08-18-2013, 10:48 AM   #1493
tuxor
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I just wanted to point out that the dictionary still suffers from rather notable flaws:

At first, non-compressed StarDict dictionaries are not supported at the moment. There do exist dictionaries that don't come as ".dict.dz" but as ".dict". In order to use such a dictionary, I have to use dictzip to compress the ".dict" file. This should at least be mentioned somewhere (in the start post e.g.).

From time to time, the "similar words" view doesn't work when the dictionary tool is embedded: Selecting a word from the text will show the "best" match's meaning, but when switching to "similar words" I get nothing (instead of a list). In these situations, I have to use the "D" button to switch to the full dictionary tool, where the "similar words" view will work as expected.

When looking up a word, the default option is displaying the "best" match. But in many situations the list of "similar words" is the only desirable outcome and having to click on the "similar words"-button each time is somewhat cumbersome. It should be possible changing this default behaviour as needed.

The last thing, which has by far the lowest priority, is the possibility to look up in several dictionaries simultaneously, just like with existing dictionary tools (compare with GoldenDict and ColorDict for Android).

Last edited by tuxor; 08-18-2013 at 10:53 AM.
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