Gaim-Dict

Gaim-Dict is a plugin for gaim that allows one to do dict.org dictionary lookups from within a conversation.

Requirements

Everything required to compile gaim.
A network connection (which isn't technically required for gaim!)

Downloads

Notice that the plugin version matches the version of gaim that was available on that release day.
v0.59.2 - Thu May 16 02:12:46 CDT 2002
v0.59 - Wed May 15 23:16:27 CDT 2002

Screenshots

Directions

    Installation.
  1. Download the gaim-dict package
  2. Extract it in the gaim/plugins source directory
  3. cd to gaim/plugins/gaim-dict
  4. run make
  5. cd to gaim/plugins
  6. run export PLUGIN_LIBS=gaim-dict/libdict.a to set the plugin library deps
  7. Build the plugin with make gaim-dict.so
  8. Load the plugin (Tools->Plugins->Load)
    Usage.

    From any converstation type:
    /def [word1] [word2] ...
    Gaim-Dict connects to dict.org to collect definitions. It doesn't send anything across a conversation connection. It's uses the well defined DICT protocol and the web1913 dictionary.

    Configuration.
    The plugin configuration dialog will allow you to select where you want definitions to appear.
Donour Sizemore
Last modified: Thu May 16 02:39:12 CDT 2002