On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:56 AM, najrut
<ruler11post@gmail.com> wrote:
I've compared QuickDict (QD) with my GoldenDict (GD) distribution,
that can be found at http://sites.google.com/site/slovlacukt/file-cabinet.
Here is what we get.
Operating system.
QD. Windows
GD. Windows Linux Mac
A definite minus for QD, until one realizes that both Linux and Mac are capable of running Windows programs. (Not being NATIVE is still a minus, but not quite so much.)
Dictionaries
QD. gismu cmavo lujvo (?)
GD. gismu cmavo lujvo + any other dictionaries including simplified
gismu, etymology, mnemonics, the whole jbovlaste and much more.
I'm sure it would quite easy to make QD able to extend it's dictionary database with very little coding - and if it were reprogrammed for that it would actually surpass GD, as its dictionary format is plain text, whereas GD requires specialized formats. (i.e. QD > GD in ease of use of creating/editing dictionaries.)
Search through dictionaries
QD No
GD Yes
Search history
QD No
GD Yes
Can copy the translation to clipboard ?
QD No
GD Yes
I've never used any of those features of GD and don't really care about them. I pretty much exclusively use GD's scan popup feature, except in the very annoying cases where it doesn't work - which is frequent.
Size of distribution
QD several kilobytes
GD >12 megabytes
So the last feature is the only plus of QuickDict.
I don't mean QuickDict is bad, it's just less easy to use (for the
time being !).
If QuickDict can be expanded to Linux and Mac it would be wonderful.
Considering that I only use the scan popup feature of GD (when it works), and QD seems to be naught but the scan popup, I would rather use QD than GD, especially seeing as, for me, GD is bloated - that is, has many things I neither want nor need.
If QD was ported to run natively in Linux and Mac, or better, was ported to a non-hardware dependent architecture such as, to use a really bad example, Java, and if it was also made capable of having it's dictionary database arbitrarily extended, I would abandon GD in favour of it altogether, especially considering that QD has one all-powerful plus that GD does and can not have - It can break apart lujvo.
(And yes, I know that GD has the ability to query websites, and that there is a website one can use to break apart and/or form lujvo, but the website handling by GD is absolutely atrocious and works even less often than the scan popup. For me at least, it is actually faster to open my web browser, load the webpage, and type the word into the appropriate box, than it is to use GD's web functionality to to the same thing with the same page.)
Luke Bergen wrote:
> I've been using this script for a while now but the lujvo section has been
> broken... till this afternoon.
>
> Since I've found it to be handy I thought I might share it with anyone who
> might be interested. I've included the source in case anyone is curious
> enough to prod at it.
>
> I put it up on file dropper because that seemed easiest. I know many mail
> clients will choke if they see an email with a zip attachment that contains
> .exe's.
>
> If it gets a good enough response, maybe I'll try to get it up onto
>
lojban.org somewhere. So, any and all feedback is welcome. Thanks.
>
> Here's the link:
http://www.filedropper.com/quickdict>
> mu'o mi'e cribe
>
> mu'onai It's a windows only utility. mu'o
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