Bug#293137: gnome-dictionary: enhance usability of dictionary selection list

[Andreas Neudecker]

Package: gnome-utils
Version: 2.8.1-1
Severity: wishlist



The settings dialogue has a drop down list of selections where you
can select either one or all databases.

I suggest an alternative presentation for the dictionaries:

1. This is an enduser program. The dictionaries should be called 
dictionaries, not databases (in the German UI: Datenbank).

2. Instead of a drop down list there should be a list field where
either one, several or all dictionaries can be selected for enclusion 
in searches.

3. and probably most important: with a dictionary tool that is capable
of searching several dictionaries it is best to have the list of
available dictionaries included in the main window (e.g. as an area
on the left side, similar to what you find in modern GUI webbrowsers.
There dictionaries could be selected on a case-by-case basis.


Kind regards


Andreas





-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-386
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages gnome-utils depends on:
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ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.16-6        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.8.0-4         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.8.0-4         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.8.0-2         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4              2.8.1-4         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.4.1-1       Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.4.8-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2       2.8.1-2         Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0              2.8.0-6         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.8.0-1         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.8.0-3         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.8.3-8         The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.4.14-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                1:2.10.2-1.1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0       2.8.2-1         Library for GNOME 2 Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.6.0-3         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0 0.7-1           library for program launch feedbac
ii  libxml2                  2.6.11-5        GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper             0.3.14-9.1      A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-3       compression library - runtime

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