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[vicmz]

GoldenDict homepage:
http://goldendict.org/

[Puppus Dogfellow]

cool. (artha sucks)

[vicmz]

A site with dictionary databases, but it seems to be left out since 2011:

http://www.freedict.org/en/

[vicmz]

To add WordReference online dictionary search, for example English-Spanish, go to Edit > Dictionaries (or press the F3 key), then in the Websites tab click Add. Type the name of the search service, for example WordReference (EN-ES), and in the URL field paste this link:

[josejp2424]

excelente vicmz , ya lo estoy descargando.

[vicmz]

GoldenDict has a global hotkey to quickly look up words, similar to that of WordWeb in Windows. Select a word, press CTRL+C+C keys and GoldenDict will automatically display a dialog with the search results (based on the installed dictionary databases and the configured online dictionaries). You can change the key combination at Edit > Preferences (see screenshots). This hotkey works as long as you're running GoldenDict, but it doesn't work for certain programs such as ePDFview.

To play sounds of words in online dictionaries that rely on flashplayer and other plugins, you can activate that function in the Preferences as shown in the screenshot below.

[Puppus Dogfellow]

here's a pet of the 1.0.5 version. (only tested in quirky tahr so far).

[vicmz]

[Puppus Dogfellow]

[vicmz]

Puppus Dogfellow's GoldenDict pet doesn't work in Precise Puppy - this pup was built with libraries older than required. However, it's OK for those who are running Quirky Tahr or a puppy with newer libraries.

Get more free offline dictionaries (databases in BGL format) from here:

http://www.babylon.com/free-dictionaries/

To add them:

- make a dictionary folder in a directory of your choice, for example /mnt/home/dict
- add that directory to the search paths as shown in the screenshot below, then exit GoldenDict
- copy one BGL file into the dictionary folder, then run GoldenDict and wait until the dictionary is indexed
- repeat previous step with another BGL file you'd like to add

Why not copy all and have them all indexed at once? Because at times it may fail to index properly, making for the dictionary program to refuse to run (iconv error). You may add them in pairs if you like, but it'd be better to add one at a time just to be on the safe side.

Make sure you have enough space in your save file. Even if the dictionary files are stored in the hard disk, they seem to be extracted in part into another location as well.