I just found the gnome-translate-indicator which is great! I click on the button in the top panel and then I can lookup any word. It’s only one way but that’s not a big problem for me as I rarely translate to English, mostly from.

edit: the extension uses translate-shell which uses google, bing, but also apertium. So far I have not found a way to switch settings. I guess you have to point to a translate-shell instance which has to be configured.

I was wondering if there is an improved workflow for this. We’ve got bangs in the browser and is there a way to include this into the general GNOME search? maybe with a bang?

Additionaly, there is Light Dict which looks like a great app but doesn’t work on my machine out of the box (it fails to execute a trans process). Before trying to find the problem, I’d like to know if someone is using it.

edit2: I can’t find any attribution to any external dictionary. Use it at your own risk.

edit3: There is also Dialect with which you can translate via lingva or libretranslate. It looks like a nice gui app.

So, is there a perfect workflow for this? I’d lvoe to hear your experience with translation and dictionary lookups on GNOME / linux

  • DangerousInternet@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They both require translate-shell… Light Dict did not worked for me, too. Translate Indicator works, but I can not paste text, only type it, that is not cool, otherwise that extension would be good.

    I use Dialect app, which is ‘integrated’ to gnome search. ‘’ because integration does not mean text is autotranslated, you need to click dialect and the app opens with search query. But it works and works better, than those extensions.

    • juli@programming.devOP
      1·
      9 months ago

      Did you try Meta + T? It’ll open the popup and I can paste into it.

      How does the dialect integration work? What do you type into the search?

      • DangerousInternet@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        I type anything, or usually just ctrl-v, and one of the options is to open this query in Dialect. So that is not real integration where you would see translation right in search, which would be awesome. I do not need to translate things often, so separate app without occupying any memory is OK for me. I tested those extensions just for curiosity if they are super good, but they are not…

        • juli@programming.devOP
          1·
          9 months ago

          Thx.

          It doesn’t work for me. That’s probably because of flatpak, I have the same issue with calc.