Dictionary found: Artha

[dougmack]

While looking for a replacement for StarDict, which I didn't like for various reasons--not the least of which is its propensity to write in Chinese as well
as English--I found Artha on Google, and it suggested that the PCLOS repo might have it.  Sure enough, it did.  But when I did a search in
Synaptic for "dictionary" Artha didn't come up.  It ought to!  It's a far better gadget than StarDict--at least if you are working in English.
Perhaps the creators of the Synaptic package manager, whoever they are, should be notified to fix this oversight.  Let me know who to send the
bug report to and I will do it.

Thanx.  --doug

[Old-Polack]

While looking for a replacement for StarDict, which I didn't like for various reasons--not the least of which is its propensity to write in Chinese as well
as English--I found Artha on Google, and it suggested that the PCLOS repo might have it.  Sure enough, it did.  But when I did a search in
Synaptic for "dictionary" Artha didn't come up.  It ought to!  It's a far better gadget than StarDict--at least if you are working in English.
Perhaps the creators of the Synaptic package manager, whoever they are, should be notified to fix this oversight.  Let me know who to send the
bug report to and I will do it.

Thanx.  --doug

Free cross-platform English
Artha is a handy thesaurus that focuses on high
usability, without trading off simplicity and ease of use.

[taelti]

While looking for a replacement for StarDict, which I didn't like for various reasons--not the least of which is its propensity to write in Chinese as well
as English--I found Artha on Google, and it suggested that the PCLOS repo might have it.  Sure enough, it did.  But when I did a search in
Synaptic for "dictionary" Artha didn't come up.  It ought to!  It's a far better gadget than StarDict--at least if you are working in English.
Perhaps the creators of the Synaptic package manager, whoever they are, should be notified to fix this oversight.  Let me know who to send the
bug report to and I will do it.

Thanx.  --doug

Doug, dont search for 'dictionary', search for 'artha'. Its there.

[dougmack]

I know it's a thesaurus, but it's also a dictionary--it provides definitions.   For example, for "thesaurus," it provides:
 " 1. a book containing a classified list of synonyms"  Now that's a *dictionary* so it ought to be listed in the search
command under dictionary, as well as under thesaurus.

Yes, I know it's there--I had to go to Google to find the name, and then it was suggested that some distros, including pclos
would probably have it, and so that's how I found it.  I'm very happy that I found it.  I'd just like to make it easier for others
to find it.  That's why I posted the note here--you'll see that I'd like to get the people who write the search engine for
Synaptic to include Artha under the word dictionary *as well as* thesaurus. 

I do find a thesaurus useful, but it wouldn't have occurred to me to look for a dictionary under "thesaurus."  And dictionary
was what I was looking for.

--doug

[gseaman]

Synaptic searches the description of the package, so Artha would need to be repackaged with a better description.

Galen