[desktop-discuss] Vermilion Impressions

[Peter Tribble]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 12:16, Calum Benson wrote:
> On 28 Apr 2006, at 23:49, Peter Tribble wrote:
> 
> > Dictionary comes back with unable to find dictionary source, and  
> > then I
> > got the ended unexpectedly dialog.
> 
> Dictionary has never worked behind a firewall, right back since our  
> GNOME 2.0 days.  I've recommended that we don't ship it in vermillion.

Hm. As I recall, JDS (as in S10) uses jdictionary as the
Dictionary; vermillion seems to ship gnome-dictionary.

It's trivial to fix jdictionary to work behind a firewall
(if the problem is that it doesn't pick up the http proxy,
which is the problem I remember); I also used to install
a default dictionary.

The gnome-dictionary problem is something else (there
isn't a firewall causing problmes for it here). Truss shows:

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/gdict-1.0/sources",
O_RDONLY|O_NDELAY|O_LARGEFILE) Err#2 ENOENT

which I suspect is what's tripping it up.

I would log a bug, but if it's not going to exist then
the effort may not be justified.

(Although I would say that the more apps you ship the better.)

-- 
-Peter Tribble
L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/
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