11:12 p.m.
Hi,
Ok, now I have another complaint.
With FC4 the dictionary would return near misses. Now it returns an
annoying "Error while looking up definition" even when a I have a single
letter wrong. WTF?
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"Doing my part to spread the free
and open software (FOSS) memes".
11:19 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 22:12 -0600, Ken Dyke wrote:
Hi,
Ok, now I have another complaint.
With FC4 the dictionary would return near misses. Now it returns an
annoying "Error while looking up definition" even when a I have a single
letter wrong. WTF?
----
was this with a particular application?
was this an upgrade installation?
did you want to provide any details that might be helpful or did you
just want to sound off?
Craig
11:21 p.m.
On 4/7/06, Ken Dyke <ken_i_m(a)bozemanlug.org> wrote:
Hi,
Ok, now I have another complaint.
With FC4 the dictionary would return near misses. Now it returns an
annoying "Error while looking up definition" even when a I have a single
letter wrong. WTF?
What is your "strategy" setting under preferences (Edit menu)?
Mine (FC4) is "Match headwords with Levenshtein distance one."
8:41 p.m.
Matt Morgan wrote:
On 4/7/06, Ken Dyke <ken_i_m(a)bozemanlug.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Ok, now I have another complaint.
>
>With FC4 the dictionary would return near misses. Now it returns an
>annoying "Error while looking up definition" even when a I have a single
>letter wrong. WTF?
What is your "strategy" setting under preferences (Edit menu)?
Mine (FC4) is "Match headwords with Levenshtein distance one."
Probably something like "Hamming distance".
11:25 p.m.
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 09:41:40PM -0400, David Liguori (liguorid(a)albany.edu) wrote:
Matt Morgan wrote:
>On 4/7/06, Ken Dyke <ken_i_m(a)bozemanlug.org> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Ok, now I have another complaint.
>>
>>With FC4 the dictionary would return near misses. Now it returns an
>>annoying "Error while looking up definition" even when a I have a
single
>>letter wrong. WTF?
>
>
>What is your "strategy" setting under preferences (Edit menu)?
>
>Mine (FC4) is "Match headwords with Levenshtein distance one."
>
Probably something like "Hamming distance".
There is no preference setting for "Levenshtein" or otherwise. I
recall seeing such in previous versions and twiddled them. The version
installed is "Dictionary 2.14.0" the only preference settings is
'source' and 'print'.
--
I reason and act, therefore, ken_i_m
"Doing my part to spread the free
and open software (FOSS) memes".
5:18 p.m.
On Sun, 2006-09-04 at 22:25 -0600, Ken Dyke wrote:
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 09:41:40PM -0400, David Liguori
(liguorid(a)albany.edu) wrote:
>
>
> Matt Morgan wrote:
> >On 4/7/06, Ken Dyke <ken_i_m(a)bozemanlug.org> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Ok, now I have another complaint.
> >>
> >>With FC4 the dictionary would return near misses. Now it returns an
> >>annoying "Error while looking up definition" even when a I have a
single
> >>letter wrong. WTF?
> >
> >
> >What is your "strategy" setting under preferences (Edit menu)?
> >
> >Mine (FC4) is "Match headwords with Levenshtein distance one."
> >
> Probably something like "Hamming distance".
There is no preference setting for "Levenshtein" or otherwise. I
recall seeing such in previous versions and twiddled them. The version
installed is "Dictionary 2.14.0" the only preference settings is
'source' and 'print'.
What application are you using?
I have FC3 and FC5, the dictionary on ether panel has a setting for
the strategy under its preferences.
5:49 p.m.
> There is no preference setting for "Levenshtein" or
otherwise. I
> recall seeing such in previous versions and twiddled them. The version
> installed is "Dictionary 2.14.0" the only preference settings is
> 'source' and 'print'.
What application are you using?
I have FC3 and FC5, the dictionary on ether panel has a setting for
the strategy under its preferences.
Are you sure you have those preferences on FC5?
I see the same thing as the OP. The gnome dictionary application ( has
two tabs in the preferences window: Source, which allows me to choose
from multiple dictionary servers, and Print, which allows me to choose
the font for printing. Looking up a misspelled word gives me the error
"Error while looking up definition: No definitions found for 'word'".
2:34 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:49:53PM -0300, Brian Mury (brianmury(a)alumni.uvic.ca) wrote:
> > There is no preference setting for "Levenshtein"
or otherwise. I
> > recall seeing such in previous versions and twiddled them. The version
> > installed is "Dictionary 2.14.0" the only preference settings is
> > 'source' and 'print'.
>
> What application are you using?
>
> I have FC3 and FC5, the dictionary on ether panel has a setting for
> the strategy under its preferences.
Are you sure you have those preferences on FC5?
I see the same thing as the OP. The gnome dictionary application ( has
two tabs in the preferences window: Source, which allows me to choose
from multiple dictionary servers, and Print, which allows me to choose
the font for printing. Looking up a misspelled word gives me the error
"Error while looking up definition: No definitions found for 'word'".
Yes, these are 2 tabs I see. If I misspell something I get a pop-up
that says:
"Error while looking up definition"
--
I reason and act, therefore, ken_i_m
"Doing my part to spread the free
and open software (FOSS) memes".
3:21 p.m.
On Tue, 2006-18-04 at 13:34 -0600, Ken Dyke wrote:
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:49:53PM -0300, Brian Mury
(brianmury(a)alumni.uvic.ca) wrote:
> > > There is no preference setting for "Levenshtein" or otherwise.
I
> > > recall seeing such in previous versions and twiddled them. The version
> > > installed is "Dictionary 2.14.0" the only preference settings
is
> > > 'source' and 'print'.
> >
> > What application are you using?
> >
> > I have FC3 and FC5, the dictionary on ether panel has a setting for
> > the strategy under its preferences.
>
> Are you sure you have those preferences on FC5?
>
> I see the same thing as the OP. The gnome dictionary application ( has
> two tabs in the preferences window: Source, which allows me to choose
> from multiple dictionary servers, and Print, which allows me to choose
> the font for printing. Looking up a misspelled word gives me the error
> "Error while looking up definition: No definitions found for
'word'".
Yes, these are 2 tabs I see. If I misspell something I get a pop-up
that says:
"Error while looking up definition"
You are right, I must have been confused. When I checked in FC5 I
only see the two tabs.
I noticed that if you go to add another dictionary, there is
a place to set the strategy, but the dropdown box is empty,
and there does not appear to be any way to change an existing
dictionary.
2:54 a.m.
Hello,
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:21:34 -0600 Guy Fraser <guy(a)incentre.net> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-18-04 at 13:34 -0600, Ken Dyke wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:49:53PM -0300, Brian Mury
> (brianmury(a)alumni.uvic.ca) wrote:
> > > > There is no preference setting for "Levenshtein" or
otherwise. I
> > > > recall seeing such in previous versions and twiddled them. The
> > > > version installed is "Dictionary 2.14.0" the only
preference
> > > > settings is 'source' and 'print'.
> > >
> > > What application are you using?
> > >
> > > I have FC3 and FC5, the dictionary on ether panel has a setting for
> > > the strategy under its preferences.
> >
> > Are you sure you have those preferences on FC5?
> >
> > I see the same thing as the OP. The gnome dictionary application ( has
> > two tabs in the preferences window: Source, which allows me to choose
> > from multiple dictionary servers, and Print, which allows me to choose
> > the font for printing. Looking up a misspelled word gives me the error
> > "Error while looking up definition: No definitions found for
'word'".
>
> Yes, these are 2 tabs I see. If I misspell something I get a pop-up
> that says:
> "Error while looking up definition"
You are right, I must have been confused. When I checked in FC5 I
only see the two tabs.
I noticed that if you go to add another dictionary, there is
a place to set the strategy, but the dropdown box is empty,
and there does not appear to be any way to change an existing
dictionary.
To me the gnome-dictionary in FC5 is regressing.. There is much less
dictionaries groups I can select: 3 items (call them dict groups?) are
available, no precision about what is the "default" dict server contents..
and no more list of dicts as it was present w/ FC3. And less settings too
(for instance the matching strategy). BTW, the strategy setting appears in
gconf-editor, but who knows what values are legal (but "exact")?
Regards,
--
wwp
6:35 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:34:06PM -0600, Ken Dyke (ken_i_m(a)bozemanlug.org) wrote:
Yes, these are 2 tabs I see. If I misspell something I get a pop-up
that says:
"Error while looking up definition"
Is anyone aware of a bug report being filed on this?
--
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"Doing my part to spread the free
and open software (FOSS) memes".
11:24 p.m.
So how does this mean it's spelling Nazi? I missed that in your post...:-/
On 4/6/06, Ken Dyke <ken_i_m(a)bozemanlug.org> wrote:
Hi,
Ok, now I have another complaint.
With FC4 the dictionary would return near misses. Now it returns an
annoying "Error while looking up definition" even when a I have a single
letter wrong. WTF?
--
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11:17 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:24 -0700, Hex Star wrote:
So how does this mean it's spelling Nazi? I missed that in your
post...:-/
I gather because it's getting dictatorial (pun intended) about how you
use it.
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Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
I read messages from the public lists.
12:36 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-13-04 at 08:39 -0400, Thom Paine wrote:
On 4/7/06, Hex Star <hexstar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> So how does this mean it's spelling Nazi? I missed that in your post...:-/
>
>
I think he means it's the 'spelling nazi' like the 'soup nazi' from
Seinfeld.
Ahh.
That changes everything.
I am pretty sure I was fiddling with using soundex on FC5, I'll
check this weekend.
5:15 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 22:12 -0600, Ken Dyke wrote:
Hi,
Ok, now I have another complaint.
With FC4 the dictionary would return near misses. Now it returns an
annoying "Error while looking up definition" even when a I have a
single
letter wrong. WTF?
What are you talking about?
Works fine for me:
WordNet (r) 2.0"
Nazi
adj 1: relating to or consistent with or typical of the ideology
and practice of Nazism or the Nazis; "the total Nazi
crime"; "the Nazi interpretation of history"
2: relating to a form of socialism; "the national socialist
party came to power in 1933" syn: national socialist
n : a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party syn: German
Nazi
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