GNOME Dictionary

GNOME Dictionary is a free, open source, simple and great looking software project designed to act as a standalone desktop dictionary app for the GNOME desktop environment, running on any distribution of Linux.

Features at a glance

The program allows users to easily look up word definitions, view and hear pronunciation of words. It is a windowed application with good search capabilities, typographic results, bookmarks for favorite words, and search history. It also features a structured API (Application Programming Interface) that's capable of displaying bubbles with short definitions, at a given location, for a given word.

Designed for GNOME

GNOME Dictionary is designed in such a way that it integrates well with the GNOME-Shell user interface, allowing you to search words directly from your GNOME graphical desktop environment. This means, of course, that you won’t have to open the application to search for word definitions when you’re using GNOME.

Easy to use GUI

The application’s GUI (Graphical User Interface) is written with the help of the GTK+ toolkit, following GNOME’s HIG (Human Interface Design) specifications. It is easy to use, allowing the user to quickly navigate between definitions, copy definitions, print definitions, change the dictionary source, as well as to customize it the way you like it.

The command-line

Advanced Linux users can use the command-line to force the GNOME Dictionary application run on a specific X display, use a program class/name as used by the window manager, enable debugging mode or to load additional GTK+ modules. Therefore, just type “gnome-dictionary” (without quotes) followed by an option on a X11 terminal emulator. Do not hesitate to type “gnome-dictionary --help-all” for a list of available options.

Supported GNU/Linux distributions and desktop environments

Besides running on GNOME, the GNOME Dictionary application is supported on any other open-source desktop environment, as well as all of its dependencies are installed (e.g. GTK+). We’ve successfully tested the application on the Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE, Xfce and Unity desktops.

What is new in this release:

• Bug fixes:
• 777584 - menu for dictionary selection has too small size
• 762589 - Can't add dictionary sources
• Updated translations:
• Russian, French, Greek, Persian, Polish

What is new in version 3.26.0:

• Update the gnome-dictionary man page and install it (#786319)
• Ensure that desktop files and AppData metadata is valid
• Updated translations
• Slovenian, Galician, Serbian, Finnish, Indonesian, Hungarian, Croatian, French, Danish, Catalan, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Turkish, Korean, Slovak, Belarusian, Latvian, Chinese (Taiwan), Italian

What is new in version 3.24.0:

• Application:
• Move more UI into the XML template (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Fix the DatabaseChooserButton construction (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Remove unused app menu item (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Store the appropriate window size (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Bump up the dependency on GLib and GTK+ (Emannuele Bassi)
• Use Unicode in translatable strings (Piotr Drag)
• Add Ctrl+Q keyboard accelerator quit shortcut (Felipe Borges)
• Add Flatpak manifest (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Use gtk_show_uri_on_window() with newer GTK+ (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Use gtk_menu_popup_at_widget() with newer GTK+ (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Add Language headers to po files (Piotr Drag)
• Library:
• Use appropriate sizing for DB chooser (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Use get_instance_private() (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Fix DatabaseChooserButton annotations (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Use a symbolic icon in DatabaseChooserButton (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Include the right header in GdictClientContext (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Translations:
• vi (Trần Ngọc Quan), fur (Fabio Tomat), fa (Arash Mousavi), pt (Sergio Cardeira), gd (GunChleoc), pt_BR (Rafael Fontenelle), oc (Cedric Valmary), sv (Sebastian Rasmussen), nb (Kjartan Maraas), id (Andika Triwidada), he (Yosef Or Boczko), pl (Piotr Drag), da (Ask Hjorth Larsen), en_GB (David King), zh_CN (Dz Chen), de (Mario Blattermann), cs (Marek Cernock), es (Daniel Mustieles), hu (Balazs Mesko), kk (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov), sk (Dusan Kazik), fr (Claude Paroz), eu (Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio), fi (Jiri Gronroos), zh_TW (Chao-Hsiung Liao), sr (МироCлaв Николић), it (Milo Casagrande), is (Sveinn i Felli), lt (Aurimas Cernius), gl (Fran Dieguez), ru (Yuri Myasoedov), ko (Changwoo Ryu), lv (Rudolfs Mazurs), ja (Kento Tsuji)

What is new in version 3.18.1 / 3.20 Beta 1:

• Application:
• Add a missing tag to the AppData file (Richard Hughes)
• Translations:
• bg (Alexander Shopov), cs (Marek Cernocky'), el (Tom Tryfonidis), es (Daniel Mustieles), fr (Alexandre Franke), hu (Balazs Mesko), lv (Rudolfs Mazurs), sl (Matej Urbancic), zh_TW (Chao-Hsiung Liao)

What is new in version 3.17.3:

• Translations:
• de (Benjamin Steinwender), es (Daniel Mustieles), tr (Necdet YA¼cel)
• Application:
• Remove Select All menu entry (Juan R. GarcAa Blanco)
• Remove Edit submenu (Juan R. GarcAa Blanco)
• Remove Close menu entry (Juan R. GarcAa Blanco)
• Make entries under File top-level menu entries (Juan R. GarcAa Blanco)
• Remove obsolete gdict_window_defbox_selection_changed (Juan R. GarcAa Blanco)

What is new in version 3.16.2:

• Translations:
• cs (Marek Cernocky'), el (Tom Tryfonidis), et (Mattias Poldaru),
• ja (Hajime Taira), nl (Hannie Dumoleyn)
• Application:
• Pass the application pointer to the window constructor (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Drop homegrown app singleton (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Use widget templates to build GdictPrefDialog (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Rename the GdictPrefDialog UI definition (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Rename the menus UI definition file (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Use widget templates for GdictSourceDialog (Emmanuele Bassi)

What is new in version 3.16.0:

• Translations:
• ca (Jordi Mas), eu (Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio), id (Andika Triwidada),
• tr (Muhammet Kara), hu (GAbor Kelemen)
• Documentation:
• Fix paste keyboard shortcut (Gabor Kelemen)

What is new in version 3.14.2 / 3.16.0 Beta 1:

• Application:
• Convert to new-style commandline option handling (Matthias Clasen)
• Make DBus-activatable (Matthias Clasen)
• Fix #528956: duplicated dictionary sources (Juan R. GarcAa Blanco)
• Library:
• Fix emission of lookup-start (Juan R. GarcAa Blanco)
• Add GObject introspection support (Stefano Facchini & Juan R. GarcAa Blanco)
• Translations:
• cs (Marek AŒernockA½), es (Daniel Mustieles), hu (BalAzs Asr),
• id (Andika Triwidada), nb (Kjartan Maraas), nl (Erwin Poeze),
• pl (Piotr DrA...g), ru (Yuri Myasoedov), sl (Matej UrbanAiA),
• vi (Traº§n Nga"c QuA¢n)
• Update POTFILES for org.gnome.Dictionary.desktop.in (Piotr DrA...g)

What is new in version 3.14.2:

• Application:
• Use g_timeout_add_seconds() for multi-second timeouts (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Translations:
• kk (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)

What is new in version 3.14.1:

• Application:
• Fix #737626: expand sidebar
• Translations:
• fa (Arash Mousavi)
• te (Krishnababu Krothapalli)
• pt_BR (Rafael Ferreira)
• bn_IN (Saibal Ray)

What is new in version 3.14.0:

• Translation updates

What is new in version 3.14 RC:

• Translation updates
• Added AppData file

What is new in version 3.10.0:

• Code fixes:
• Fix typo
• Fix #706556, tag typo
• Fixed typo in string
• Fix bugzilla product in .desktop file
• sidebar: Do not select unrealized menu items
• po/vi.po: import from Damned Lies
• po/vi.po: revert two strings, committed by accident previously
• Fix broken tags in German help translation
• Fix Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C in the search field
• Fix autogen and configure
• Translation updates:
• Many thanks to our translators for adding/updating translations in Indonesian, French, Punjabi, Portuguese, Hungarian, Korean, Ukrainian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Friulian, Galician, Belarusian, Basque, Japanese, Danish, Estonian, Slovak, Latvian, Irish, Finnish, Vietnamese and Serbian.

What is new in version 3.9.0:

• Translation updates:Tajik, Spanish, Gujarati, Breton, Hebrew, Galician, Russian, Tranditional Chinese, Slovenian, Brazillian Portuguese.

What is new in version 3.8.0:

• Translation updates
• Re-written help in Mallard (Sindhu S, Ekaterina Gerasimova)

Requirements:

• GNOME