[Gllug] Thesaurus based searching

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 03:28, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:24:14AM +0000, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 00:32, Pete Ryland wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:31:50AM +0000, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> > > > >Cool. I've not really looked at dict before, and it's really very nice.
> > > > >Side question - does anyone know if there's a nice X interface to it?
> > > > >I've got gdict, but it won't run 'cos I'm running Enlightenment, and not
> > > > >running the gnome panel. Are there any X interfaces that don't require
> > > > >gnome-panel?
> > > > >
> > > > There is a KDE front end to it ;-)
> > > > 
> > > > I am not sure whether that helps or not.
> > > > 
> > > > The gdict thing I think does not reallt need the panel as it opens up a 
> > > > new application when launched, which I am sure you could run.
> > > 
> > > Yep, gdict is the normal X application.  gdict-applet runs in the panel and
> > > then calls upon gdict itself.
> > 
> > That's what I'd have expected, but it doesn't work:-
> > 
> > $ gdict
> > The GNOME panel is not running.
> > 
> > This is the gdict installed by Woody. Anything I can do?
> 
> Hmm.. *searches*  ah, found it.  It's (now?) called 'gnome-dictionary'.

Aha - thanks. Irritatingly, I'm running testing, and it's not in the
gnome-utils package in testing. Grrr.

Mike.


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