So you are interested in the DICT protocol and would like to know where to find some interesting tools and data to use with your favourite DICT client (e.g. Fantasdic…)? I have made a bunch of tools that you should have a look at!
I released WikipediaFS 0.2.
This release fixes a critical bug and adds the possibility to use an HTTP proxy.
After more than one year of inactivity, I finally took the time to release WikipediaFS, a small project of mine. With WikipediaFS, you can view and edit Wikipedia (or any other Mediawiki-based site) articles transparently as if they were real files.
Christopher Bodenstein, who said “I’d like to thank you for that wonderful program. I use it nearly daily and it really saves my day”, has kindly contributed back Debian packages for Nihongo Benkyo. He had the great idea to package data for it too. If you’re interested in testing, please join the project’s mailing-list. Christopher would like to know if you encounter problems, or have suggestions of any kind.
Nihongo Benkyo is as far as I know also available as RPM for Mandriva, ebuild for Gentoo and package for Arch Linux. Cool!
After a few weeks of evaluation, Fantasdic has finally been accepted by the GNOME accounts team and is now in the GNOME CVS.
To retrieve the source code from the anonymous mirror repository:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome co -P fantasdic
I hope it will help Fantasdic attract more contributors, translators and above all package maintainers. As far as I know, this is the first Ruby program to be hosted on the GNOME CVS. Maybe a first step toward more adoption of that fabulous language in the GNOME community?
This release fixes a bug that prevented Fantasdic from running under Windows (thanks to Gabriele Renzi for telling me) and some user interface tweaks (thanks to John Spray for the patch).
Screenshot : Fantasdic under Windows
Download : fantasdic-1.0-beta1.1.tar.gz
I’m pleased to announce the first release of Fantasdic, a client for the DICT protocol (a dictionary network protocol, RFC 2229).
