[conspire] Browser 'Wars'

[Ruben Safir]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 06:43:50PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):
> 
> > On 02/10/2011 08:26 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> > > dict tautology
> > 
> > 
> > Interesting.  dict isn't a command on opensuse.  More to the point, it
> > doesn't show up in the internal packaging configuration system
> 
> According to this thread, OpenSUSE has an implementation via KDE/Konqueror
> rather than a shell command, accessible using Alt-F2 and entering
> 'dict:<word>'.  The thread exists because the feature broke in 2008
> and then got fixed.
> 
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2008-09/msg00767.html
> 
> Anyway, searching for 'dict' in a search engine also found a
> Web-mediated implementation of 'dict' in a fairly obvious place:
> 
> http://www.dict.org/
> 
> Yr. welcome.
> 
> Personally, I like having /usr/bin/dict, and would try to fix that
> omission directly, if I were in your shoes.  This rpmfind.net page 
> suggests that it can't be hard, as /usr/share/dict exists:
> http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=%2Fusr%2Fshare%2Fdict%2Fwords
> 
> Ah, I note:
> http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/opensuse/dictd.html
> 

gnome-dictionary

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