Description: This package provides web shortcuts for KDE (KRunner, Konqueror) to access hight quality online dictionaries.
Actually, it provides shortcuts for the "Duden" (german orthographies), the german publishing house "PONS", the Royal Spanish Acedemy and the Oxford English Dictionary.
To translate "word" from English to French, you can type "enfr:word" in the address field of Konqueror. Or you can access KRunner trough Alt+F2 and use the shortcut there.
If you use Firefox, use the file "kdictionaryshortcuts.html". (If you have installed KDictionaryShortscuts as RPM package, than you find this file at /usr/share/kdirctionaryshortcuts. To import the file in Firefox you must do the following in your Firefox window: * open 'Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks' * click on 'Import -> Import HTML' * choose the HTML file created by this script. This will introduce the submenu "searchproviders" in the bookmark menu bar. So it is guarenteed that the shortcuts will be syncronized correctly with Firefox Sync (if you use it).
To use the webshort in Firefox you must type the shortcut followed by a whitespace and then the search query, e.g. "gg mysearch" and NOT "gg:mysearch" as you could do in konqueror!
The Firefox version is available thanks to webshortsToFirefox.sh: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/?content=125236
The shortcuts are composed of the corresponding ISO country codes.
If you need a spell and grammar checker for english texts, we recommend http://afterthedeadline.comLast changelog:
1.6.1 - minor fix of internal documentation 1.6 - much more dictionaries - Firefox support 1.5 - updated comments 1.4 - produching "noarch" binaries 1.3 Duden is now supported - "de" leads now to Duden (the most common german ortography dictionary), like the new shortcut "deduden" - "depons" leads to PONS german spelling (which was previously used for "de) 1.2 - faster access to spanish directory (DRAE) by using a different URL
Ratings & Comments
3 Comments
Wonderful addition. I was hoping for something like this to appear (Iḿ lazy and ignorant).
for mandrva plisssssssssss
Packages are available at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/urwald:/kdictionaryshortcuts/ for various distributions including Mandriva 2009 and Mandriva 2009.1!