There's also xfce4-clipman which hijacks the selection of any application to show a context menu, showing user-defined commands. Without having seen it, it sounds like OS X does exactly that?
On 10/10/2012 09:01 AM, Sam Tate wrote: > > Yep, that was the inspiration. It was more of a concept than anything > that was going to be made 1:1 in L+1. I'll come up with some more > concepts for this later this afternoon. > > On 10 Oct 2012 07:53, "Cassidy James" <cass...@elementaryos.org > <mailto:cass...@elementaryos.org>> wrote: > > Here's the aforementioned Google Books implementation. First shot > is when highlighting, second is after tapping the card. > > On Oct 10, 2012 1:47 AM, "Daniel Foré" <dan...@elementaryos.org > <mailto:dan...@elementaryos.org>> wrote: > > Mac OS has this feature as a popover. You can select text > anywhere and get a "Look Up %word" item in the context menu. > > A while back, Christian had suggested that we could do such a > thing with a (Possibly Contractor powered) GTK module. > > El oct 9, 2012, a las 11:43 p.m., Cassidy James > <cass...@elementaryos.org <mailto:cass...@elementaryos.org>> > escribió: > >> Sam, >> >> Interesting concept. It reminds me a lot of the most recent >> update to Google Books on Android with the definition and >> place cards. I'm not sure this would be the best >> implementation across all apps, but could be useful in >> reading apps. ;) >> >> Check out the blueprint Sergey linked to for my desired >> implementation. >> >> On Oct 9, 2012 11:47 PM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" >> <ser...@elementaryos.org <mailto:ser...@elementaryos.org>> wrote: >> >> Somebody came up with this before you: >> >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/contractor/+spec/add-to-secondary-click >> Still, thanks for the mockup :) >> >> 2012/10/10 Sam Tate <s...@mtate.me.uk <mailto:s...@mtate.me.uk>> >> >> >> https://plus.google.com/u/0/118289670350117354716/posts/e7HCNnvuDqs >> >> Always helps to reference the thing that you are >> talking about in your email ;) >> >> On 9 October 2012 22:33, Sam Tate <s...@mtate.me.uk >> <mailto:s...@mtate.me.uk>> wrote: >> >> I took Dan's awesome AppCentre Mockup and added a >> dictionary overlay on it. This would work system >> wide (so for any app that has select-able text) >> and mousing over it would expand it to the larger >> centered one. >> >> Maybe in the future it could house other >> functions too? >> >> Just something to think about :P >>
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