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As that one is meant for developing Gtk+ itself. On 10 April 2013 14:25, Sindhu S <sind...@live.in> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am Sindhu, a recent intern through the Outreach Program for Women 2013 > for which I wrote user help for GNOME Terminal and GNOME Dictionary. I want > to continue contributing to GNOME as part of Google Summer of Code, but my > idea will require making some patches to GTK+. > > My idea is that GNOME users would benefit from a right click menu option to > look-up meanings of words right from inside their applications, without > having to rely on external tools and websites. When user highlights a word, > right clicks and selects "Look Up" option, the Popup bubble will show the > definition adjacent to the text, making it distraction free and improving > user productivity. This feature exists in OSX. > > This is my first attempt at coding and am building a proof-of-concept of > how the functionality will be from a user’s perspective, and to better > explain what I am trying to do. > > > Screenshots: > > http://i.imgur.com/6QPBE7H.png > > http://i.imgur.com/RzPRRms.png > > Source: https://bitbucket.org/sindhus/gnome-look-up > > I have also made a small patch to add a LookUp menu item to GTK+, which > launches GNOME Dictionary with the selected word: > > http://fpaste.org/PWms/ > > I want to add this to GTK+ because it will automatically benefit every > GNOME Application, and have consistency for the user. I feel that the > look-up context menu item makes sense to be enabled for the following > Widgets: > > GTKTextView > GTKEntry > GTKSourceView > GTKWebkit > > I understand the implications of adding a new context menu item, which will > affect GTK Applications on multiple platforms - some of which will not have > support for GNOME Dictionary, so this functionality will be disabled by > default. It can be an opt-in functionality on a per-application basis or > activated globally during compile time (For distribution developers). > > However, if the GTK Application Developers are aware of this functionality, > and feel it benefits their Application’s users, then should be able to > enable it easily. > > Can you please answer my following questions: > > 1. Do you feel this is functionality is useful? (regardless of the path I > proposed to accomplish it) > If yes, is there a more appropriate way of adding this functionality? > > 2. Do you have any suggestions or ideas on how this functionality could be > achieved alternatively that is, without having to modify GTK+? > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
