I'm looking for something to quickly lookup word definitions. My ideal workflow is this: press button to launch modal, enter word (or grab from clipboard), definition appears, exit modal.
So far, rofi-dictionary seems like the closest thing, but it's only for the (non-free) Oxford dictionary for some odd reason.
Hopefully this is the right community of this! It's the closest I could think up anyway...
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printerhell@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 19d
Assuming rofi-dictionary does what you need it to. What dictionary do you want to use? Seems like we could download an offline one and change the code. Thoughts?
Edit : i just realized this is a yr old. Did you find a solution?
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 18d
Not one I'm totally satisfied with, but I'm using Quick Lookup on desktop (which uses Wiktionary) and Poet Assistant on mobile (not part of the original scope, but anyway).
Agreed I'd prefer an offline dictionary, though not sure where to get this. The scripts look simple enough that they could be adapted to whatever source one finds...
printerhell@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 17d
There are a few free dictionaries. If you are happy wiktionary we can get stardict format from https://github.com/xxyzz/wiktionary_stardict
Here are some alternative. There is an api for wikitionary if you want to start there. https://freedict.org/downloads/
Let me know what you think.