About Wordbook
fastrizwaan opened this issue · 5 comments
I found out about wordbook from https://www.reddit.com/r/flatpak/comments/kifmdc/artha_dictionary_flatpak/
I like the coloring used by you. Artha is gtk2 application.
I was making flatpak for Artha, and successfully made it.
https://github.com/fastrizwaan/Artha_flatpak
You know, we should have global shortcut support for launching wordbook, to show results for selections in other windows. Artha does that with gsettings/dconf.
Artha being outdated was the reason I made Wordbook. I originally tried to port Artha to GTK3 in fact and found out that it was just not worth the effort.
You can set a global shortcut for the app itself and then do Ctrl+Shift+S and it will take text from selection clipboard, which is whatever text you last selected. I might simplify this later.
If you want to test Wordbook as it is right now in master, you can remove the current python-wn package you have and install the one from nltk/wordnet.
Just installed nltk/wordnet. It's fast, it's featureful, looks good.
Here's the install instructions for others
git clone https://github.com/nltk/wordnet.git
cd wordnet/
sudo python setup.py install
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/fushinari/wordbook.git
cd wordbook
sudo python setup.py install
wordbook
I miss these features:
- History (esp. if we want to see the last random word)
- wordbook.desktop (not visible in gnome shell)
- wordbook icon (https://www.google.com/search?q=book+icon&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjz19-cg-rtAhXKFHIKHZQ8BdwQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=book+icon&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIFCAAQsQMyBQgAELEDMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAA6BAgjECc6BAgAEENQpNYKWPrdCmDJ3wpoAHAAeACAAcUBiAHwCZIBAzAuOZgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=tlLmX_OkGcqpyAOU-ZTgDQ&bih=659&biw=856)
- system shortcut like artha or goldendict
- release on flathub
I'm impressed, where did you learn pygtk and libhandy? I would also like to learn, I made a rudimentary vocabulary builder software using pygtk3. https://github.com/fastrizwaan/VocabularyBuilder
2, 3 and 5 will be solved soon. 1 a bit later because I'm waiting for HdyFlap to land in a libhandy release. 4 I'm not really concerned about but may facilitate (not implement in-app, just make it easier for users to do) later.
The best resource has been other people's code. Especially the code of applications like GNOME Music, Lollypop, Komikku, etc have been really helpful. Working on Dialect has also been a great experience and taught me a lot.