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<bookinfo>
<title>The &kdict; Handbook</title>

<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Christian</firstname>
<surname>Gebauer</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>[email protected]</email></address>
</affiliation>
</author>

<othercredit role="developer">
<firstname>Christian</firstname>
<surname>Gebauer</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>[email protected]</email></address>
</affiliation>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
</othercredit>

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<firstname></firstname>
<surname></surname>
<affiliation><address><email></email></address></affiliation>
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<copyright>
<year>2002</year>
<holder>Christian Gebauer</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>

<date>2003-09-30</date>
<releaseinfo>0.5.6</releaseinfo>

<abstract><para>&kdict; is a graphical client for the
<productname>DICT</productname> protocol. It enables you to search
through dictionary databases for a word or phrase, then displays
suitable definitions.</para></abstract>

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>kdict</keyword>
<keyword>kdenetwork</keyword>
<keyword>dictionary</keyword>
<keyword>translation</keyword>
</keywordset>

</bookinfo>

<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>

<para>&kdict; is a graphical client for the
<systemitem>DICT</systemitem> Protocol.  It enables you to search
through dictionary databases for a word or phrase, then displays
suitable definitions. &kdict; tries to ease basic as well as advanced
queries. A separate list offers a convenient way to deal with the
enormous number of matching words that a advanced query can return.
</para>

<para>
The remainder of &kdict;'s user interface resembles a web browser. For
instance, you can jump to the definition of a synonym by simply clicking
on the highlighted word. The back/forward functionality is also
implemented, enabling you to quickly go back to the result of previous
queries.
</para>

<para>
&kdict; is able to process the content of the clipboard, so
it's easy to combine &kdict; with your web browser or text
editor.</para>

<para>If your machine is behind a firewall, has no permanent internet
connection or the server of dict.org is too slow for you, you can set up
your own local server, all you need is available at <ulink
url="http://www.dict.org">www.dict.org</ulink>. The advantages of a
local server are optimal performance and the ability to install
additional databases of your choice.  This handbook contains a <link
linkend="dictd-mini-howto">small tutorial for installation and links to
databases.</link></para>

</chapter>

<chapter id="using-kdict">
<title>Using &kdict;</title>

<sect1 id="getting-started">
<title>Getting Started</title>

<para>After you have started &kdict; (using the panel menu, or by typing
<command>kdict</command> at the command prompt) the &kdict; main window
shows up:</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Starting &kdict;</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject><imagedata fileref="mainwin.png" format="PNG"/></imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>The &kdict; main window.</phrase></textobject>
<caption><para>The &kdict; main window.</para></caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>There are two different methods to lookup a word or phrase with
&kdict;.  You can use a <link
linkend="define-query">define query</link>. &kdict; will look for exact
matches in the databases and displays all matching definitions in the
lower left view. Or you can use a <link
linkend="match-query">match query</link>, in this case all matching
database entries will be displayed in the list view on the right
side. You can then decide what definitions you want to look at. This
method has the advantage that you can use more sophisticated search
strategies like prefix, suffix or regular expressions.</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="configuration-of-the-server">
<title>Configuring the <systemitem>DICT</systemitem> server</title>

<para>Before you can make your first query, you have to check if the
preset server settings work with your setup. You can modify the settings
in the <link linkend="preferences">preferences dialog</link>.  The
preset server is dict.org, which is a public server, so you don't have
to change anything if you have a working internet connection.</para>

<para>You can test your configuration by selecting <guimenuitem>Server
Information</guimenuitem> from the <guimenu>Server</guimenu> menu, this
displays some status information about the server.</para>

<para>
Now you should use <menuchoice><guimenu>Server</guimenu><guimenuitem>Get
Capabilities</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, this will fetch a list of all
available databases and strategies from the server.  &kdict; is now able
to show you all features of the server in its menus. (You should always
call <guimenuitem>Get Capabilities</guimenuitem> after switching to a
new server)
</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="define-query">
<title>Basic Queries: Define</title>

<para>A define query will search for words/phrases in the selected
database(s) that match the given text exactly. The definitions belonging
to these words are displayed in the main view. If the server finds
nothing suitable, &kdict; will use a search strategy optimized for spell
checking to display a list of of similar words.</para>

<para>In most databases some words (especially synonyms) are marked with
brackets <quote>{}</quote>. These words are highlighted and by
clicking on them with the &LMB; you start an new define-query
with this word.</para>

<para>You can select a part of the text with the &LMB;. The
selection is automatically copied into the clipboard. This is very
convenient, because you can use the &MMB; anywhere in the
main view to define the content of the clipboard.  So, if you want to
get a definition for a word/phrase that is not tagged as synonym, you
just mark it with the &LMB; and get the definition when you
press the &MMB;.</para>

<para>The &RMB; shows a popup menu, where you can choose to
start queries with the selected text, the clipboard or the tagged
synonym under the mouse pointer. The menu has also two entries
<guimenuitem>Back</guimenuitem> and
<guimenuitem>Forward</guimenuitem>. You can use them to browse through
the results of previous queries.</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="match-query">
<title>Advanced Queries: Match</title>

<para>A match query uses the currently selected search strategy (the
strategy selector is is located above the match list) to search in the
selected database(s) for words similar to the given text. The result is
a list of similar words that appears in the match list on the right. The
entries are grouped according to the database they belong to.  Now you
have multiple options:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>You can use the <guibutton>Get All</guibutton> button (located
below the match list) to fetch all definitions. Please note that the
number of listed words and fetched definitions may differ, because in
some cases  two or more words share one definition and &kdict; removes
the duplicated definitions.</para> 
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>You can use the mouse or the keyboard to select the most interesting
words in the list and then press the <guibutton>Get
Selected</guibutton> button (located below the match list) to fetch only
them. If you want to get all definitions from one database just select
the list item which contains the database name.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>When you press <keycap>Enter</keycap> (keyboard) or double click
(mouse) on a list item, &kdict; will ignore the selection and fetch the
definition for this item. When you do this with a
<quote>root</quote> item (an item that contains the database name), you
will get all definitions belonging to this database.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>You can use one of the words as a starting point for a new query,
this is done via the popup menu (&RMB;).</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>A click with the &MMB; anywhere in the list will
start a new match query with the content of the clipboard (similar to
the main view).</para>

<para>The &RMB; calls the popup menu for a list item, which
has the following entries:</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guimenuitem>Get</guimenuitem></term>
<listitem><para>Shows the definition for the current
item.</para></listitem> 
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guimenuitem>Match</guimenuitem>,
<guimenuitem>Define</guimenuitem></term>  
<listitem><para>Starts a match/define query with the current
item.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry> 

<varlistentry>
<term>
<guimenuitem>Match Clipboard Content</guimenuitem>, <guimenuitem>Define Clipboard Content</guimenuitem>
</term>
<listitem><para>Starts a match/define query with the current content of
the clipboard.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guimenuitem>Get Selected</guimenuitem>, <guimenuitem>Get
All</guimenuitem></term>
<listitem><para>Same functions as the buttons below the
list.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guimenuitem>Expand List</guimenuitem>, <guimenuitem>Collapse
List</guimenuitem></term>
<listitem><para>(Un)folds all databases.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="database-sets">
<title>Database Sets</title>

<para>Sometimes it's useful to restrict a query to a subset of the
available databases, for example all english-german dictionaries. This
is achieved by defining <quote>database sets</quote>.  These sets appear
in the database selector as virtual databases.</para>

<para>You can access the configuration dialog via
<menuchoice><guimenu>Server</guimenu><guimenuitem>Edit Database
Sets</guimenuitem></menuchoice> or the toolbar icon.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Editing database sets</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject><imagedata fileref="seteditor.png" format="PNG"/></imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>The database set editor.</phrase></textobject>
<caption><para>The database set editor.</para></caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>The dialog has the following elements:</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Set</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>You must use this selector to select the set you want to
modify. You can also rename a set here by entering a new name and
pressing the <guibutton>Save</guibutton> button.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guibutton>Save</guibutton></term>
<listitem><para>Saves changes you made in the current set. You must use
this button before you select another set or leave the dialog, because
otherwise all changes will be lost.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guibutton>New</guibutton></term>
<listitem><para>This button creates a new database set.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guibutton>Delete</guibutton></term>
<listitem><para>Deletes the currently selected set.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guibutton>Close</guibutton></term>
<listitem><para>Closes the dialog without saving your
changes.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>The two lists (<guilabel>Selected Databases</guilabel> and
<guilabel>Available Databases</guilabel>) show which databases are
currently in the database set. You can use the arrow buttons between the
lists to transfer items from one list to another.</para> 

<para>By the way, you can leave this configuration dialog open and
continue your work with &kdict;. This is a nice way to test your changes
immediately.</para> 

</sect1>

<sect1 id="preferences">
<title>Preferences</title>

<para>You can modify many aspects of &kdict;'s behavior in the
preferences dialog. The dialog can be opened via
<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
Kdict</guimenuitem></menuchoice> or the the toolbar icon.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Configuring &kdict;</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject><imagedata fileref="conf.png" format="PNG"/></imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>The preferences dialog.</phrase></textobject>
<caption><para>The preferences dialog.</para></caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>The dialog is divided into several pages. The
<guibutton>Default</guibutton> button restores the default values for
the current page. The <guibutton>Apply</guibutton> button will apply
your changes on all pages. The <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button will
apply the changes and close the dialog.  The
<guibutton>Cancel</guibutton> button does this without saving the
changes. By the way, you can leave the preferences dialog open and
continue your work with &kdict;. This is a nice way to test your
changes.</para>

<sect2 id="preferences-server">
<title>The <guilabel>Server</guilabel> Page</title>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Hostname</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>The internet hostname or the ip address of the
<productname>DICT</productname> server.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Port</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This is the port number the server listens on. 2628 is
the default port and is used by the most servers.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Hold connection for</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>&kdict; is able to keep the connection open in short
periods of inactivity. This feature avoids the lengthy login procedure
before  every query. A value of 0 seconds disables this feature. Very
large values aren't useful, because in most cases the
<productname>DICT</productname> server will close the connection after a
couple of minutes.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Timeout</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This value determines how long &kdict; will wait for a
answer from the server.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Command Buffer</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>The <productname>DICT</productname> protocol allows the
client to send multiple commands in one network packet. The size of the
internal command buffer determines how many commands are send in
parallel by &kdict;. You can try to tune this value for your network
connection, but in most cases it is not worth the
effort.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Encoding</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>With this selector the text encoding method of the databases can be
specified. The default value is "utf8", this setting should work on
most servers. If an encoding is selected that doesn't match the encoding
used by the databases, you will see broken characters.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Server requires authentication</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Activate this if you want to provide a authentication
with username and password. (a server may  require this for access to
all databases) You have to enter a valid <guilabel>Username</guilabel>
and <guilabel>Password</guilabel> combination below.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-appearance">
<title>The <guilabel>Appearance</guilabel> Page</title>

<para>On this page you can customize the colors and fonts of the definition
view. A proportional font for the normal text will increase readability,
but will also destroy the hardcoded layout of tables and similar things
in the definitions of some databases.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-layout">
<title>The <guilabel>Layout</guilabel> Page</title>

<para>The layout of the result isn't really configurable yet.  But you
can decide how many headings (a heading states which database the
definition belongs to) &kdict; should place in the result. The choices
should be selfexplaining. Note that changes on this page won't have any
effect until you start a new query.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-misc">
<title>The <guilabel>Miscellaneous</guilabel> Page</title>

<para>On this page you can modify various limits that prevent &kdict;
from eating up insane amounts of memory.</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Definitions</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This limits the number of definitions you can fetch at once by
selecting them in the match list.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Cached Results</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This number determines how many previous results are held in a internal cache for fast access.
You can set this to 0, but this will disable your ability to browse back to old results.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>History Entries</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This is the number of past entries the input line remembers.
Large values will cause a slower start and shutdown of
&kdict;.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Save history on exit</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If this is selected, &kdict; will remember your
history between sessions.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Define selected text on start</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If this is selected, &kdict; will immediately try to
define the contents of the clipboard when it is
started.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</sect2>

</sect1>

</chapter>

<chapter id="panel-applet">
<title>The Panel Applet</title>

<para>If you use &kdict; frequently you may find it useful to use the
included panel applet. You can get the applet via
<menuchoice><guimenu>K-Menu</guimenu><guisubmenu>Configure
Panel</guisubmenu><guisubmenu>Add</guisubmenu><guisubmenu>Applet</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Dictionary</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>The Panel Applet</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject><imagedata fileref="applet.png" format="PNG"/></imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>The Panel Applet</phrase></textobject>
<caption><para>The Panel Applet</para></caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>The input field behaves like the input field of the &kdict; main
window.  When you press <keycap>Enter</keycap> &kdict; opens and the
query starts.  Instead of typing you can also select a phrase you
entered before from the drop down list.</para>

<para>Additionally the applet features three push buttons:</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guibutton>C</guibutton></term>
<listitem><para>Define the current content of the clipboard.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guibutton>D</guibutton></term>
<listitem><para>Define the current content of the input field.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guibutton>M</guibutton></term>
<listitem><para>Start a match query with the current content of the input field.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</chapter>

<chapter id="commands">
<title>Command Reference</title>

<sect1 id="file-menu">
<title>The <guimenu>File</guimenu> Menu</title>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>S</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Save</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Saves the current result as an html document</action>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut><keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;
<keycap>P</keycap></keycombo></shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Print</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Prints the current result.</action>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Start Query</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Defines the content of the input field.</action>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Stop Query</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Aborts the current query.</action>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><shortcut><keycombo action="simul">
&Ctrl;<keycap>Q</keycap></keycombo></shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Quit</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Quits</action> &kdict;.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="edit-menu">
<title>The <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> Menu</title>

<variablelist>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><shortcut><keycombo action="simul">
&Ctrl;<keycap>C</keycap></keycombo></shortcut>
<guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Copy</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
</term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Copies the currently selected text into the clipboard.</action></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><shortcut><keycombo action="simul">
&Ctrl;<keycap>C</keycap></keycombo></shortcut>
<guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Select All</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
</term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Selects the complete text.</action></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Define Clipboard Content</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
</term>
<listitem>
<para><link linkend="define-query">Defines the current content</link> of the clipboard.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Match Clipboard Content</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
</term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Find database entries</action> which <link
linkend="match-query">match the current content</link> of the
clipboard.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><shortcut><keycombo action="simul">
&Ctrl;<keycap>F</keycap></keycombo></shortcut>
<guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Find...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
</term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Finds a string in the displayed definitions.</action></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="history-menu">
<title>The <guimenu>History</guimenu> Menu</title>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><shortcut><keycombo action="simul">
&Alt;<keycap>Left</keycap></keycombo></shortcut>
<guimenu>History</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Back</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Displays the previous search result.</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><shortcut><keycombo action="simul">
&Alt;<keycap>Right</keycap></keycombo></shortcut>
<guimenu>History</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Forward</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Displays the next search result.</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>History</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Clear History</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Clears the list of past queries.</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

<para>At the bottom of the <guimenu>History</guimenu> the ten last queries
are listed.</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="server-menu">
<title>The <guimenu>Server</guimenu> Menu</title>

<variablelist>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice> <guimenu>Server</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Get Capabilities</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term> <listitem><para><action>Determines which databases
and strategies are available</action> on the
<productname>DICT</productname> server. You must call this once to be
able to specify search strategy and database for a
query.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Server</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Edit Database Sets...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Opens the <link linkend="database-sets">database set editor</link>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Server</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Database Information</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Submenu which offers a summary of the databases available, and detailed information for every database.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Server</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Strategy Information</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Displays a list with short descriptions of the search strategies
available on the current server.</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Server</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Server Information</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Displays some status information</action> (uptime, &etc;) about the current
<productname>DICT</productname> server.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="settings-menu">
<title>The <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> Menu</title>
<para>This menu provides options for configuring &kdict;, changing its
appearance, shortcuts and standard behavior.</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Toolbars</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Submenu which toggles the toolbars on or off. You can
toggle either the Main toolbar or the Query toolbar
independently.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Show Statusbar</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Toggles the statusbar on/off.</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Show Match List</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Hides (or shows) the match list.</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Swallow Match List</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>This (un-)swallows the match list into the main window.</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Configure Shortcuts...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Opens a dialog for changing the key bindings.</action>
Using this option you can change the standard key shortcut for &kdict;'s commands
or create new ones.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Configure Toolbars...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Opens a dialog for configuring the toolbar.</action> You
can add and remove toolbuttons for &kdict;'s commands with this option.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Configure Kdict...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Opens the <link linkend="preferences">preferences dialog</link>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="help-menu">
<title>The <guimenu>Help</guimenu> Menu</title>

&help.menu.documentation;

</sect1>

</chapter>

<chapter id="command-line">
<title>Command Line Options</title>

<para>&kdict; can be started directly from a terminal like &konsole; or
<application>xterm</application>. Several command line options are
available.</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>kdict</command> <option>word/phrase</option></term>
<listitem><para>lookup the given text. You will have to put the phrase into double quotes,
if the phrase contains more than one word. For example: <command>kdict "double quote"</command></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>kdict</command> <option>-c / --clipboard</option></term>
<listitem><para>define the current content of the clipboard.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>kdict</command> <option>-v / --version</option></term>
<listitem><para>Displays the version number of &kdict; (and that of
&Qt;/&kde;).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>kdict</command> <option>--license</option></term>
<listitem><para>Shows under which licenses &kdict; is being
published.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>&kdict; also supports all other command line options common to
&kde; and &Qt; programs. You can get a list of these options with
<userinput><option>--help</option></userinput>,
<userinput><option>--help-kde</option></userinput> and
<userinput><option>--help-qt</option></userinput></para>

</chapter>

<chapter id="credits">
<title>Credits and License</title>

<para>&kdict; - The &kde; Dictionary Client</para>

<para>Copyright (c) 1999-2001, Christian Gebauer</para>
<para>Copyright (c) 1998, Matthias H&ouml;lzer-Kl&uuml;pfel</para>


<para>&kdict; was originally written in 1998 by Matthias
H&ouml;lzer-Kl&uuml;pfel <email>[email protected]</email>. Currently it is
maintained by Christian Gebauer <email>[email protected]</email>.</para>

&underFDL;               <!-- FDL: do not remove -->
&underArtisticLicense;   <!-- Artistic License -->

</chapter>

<appendix id="installation">
<title>Installation</title>

<sect1 id="getting-kdict">
<title>How to obtain &kdict;</title>
	  
&install.intro.documentation;
&install.compile.documentation;

</sect1>
<sect1 id="requirements">
<title>Requirements</title>

<para>Besides a working &kde; installation &kdict; requires the posix
threads library which is available on all modern unices.</para>
</sect1>

</appendix>

<appendix id="dictd-mini-howto">
<title>Mini-Howto: Installing a local <productname>DICT</productname> server</title>

<sect1 id="obtaining-dictd">
<title>Obtaining and installing <command>dictd</command></title>

<para>At first the <command>dictd</command> daemon has to be installed.
The easiest way to install <command>dictd</command> is using a
precompiled package.  Such a package is included both in <ulink
url="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</ulink> and <ulink
url="http://www.suse.com/">SuSE</ulink> &Linux;. You can find packages
that should work on all <productname>RPM</productname> based &Linux; distributions on <ulink
url="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/">rpmfind.net</ulink>.</para>

<para>If you want to compile <command>dictd</command> yourself, download
<ulink
url="ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/dictd-1.9.1.tar.gz">ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/dictd-1.9.1.tar.gz</ulink>.
Compilation is easy, just unpack the archive and run
<userinput><command>./configure</command></userinput>,
<userinput><command>make</command></userinput> and
<userinput><command>make</command> <option>install</option></userinput>
in the <filename class="directory">dictd</filename> folder. You might
want to use the <option>--prefix</option> option of the configure script
to install <command>dictd</command> in a different folder. By default
<command>dictd</command> will be installed in <filename
class="directory">/usr/local</filename>.</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="obtaining-databases">
<title>Obtaining databases</title>

<para>Now you need to download some databases. The standard set
(webster, wordnet, jargon file, foldoc, ...) that is present on the
<productname>DICT</productname> server of <ulink
url="http://www.dict.org">dict.org</ulink>, is available from <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/pre/">ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/pre/</ulink>.
These are also available as <ulink
url="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</ulink> and <ulink
url="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/">rpm</ulink> packages.</para>

<sect2 id="additional-databases">
<title>Additional preformatted databases</title>

<variablelist>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://www.freedict.de/">www.freedict.de</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>Translating dictionaries for Africaans, Czech, Danish,
English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese,
Latin, Nederlands (Dutch), Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish,
Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://www.wh9.tu-dresden.de/~heinrich/dict/">http://www.wh9.tu-dresden.de/~heinrich/dict/</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>Translating dictionaries for English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portugue and Spanish.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://purl.oclc.org/NET/voko/revodict.tgz">http://purl.oclc.org/NET/voko/revodict.tgz</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>Esperanto dictionary</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://www.bainsware.com/downloads/obi-bio.tar.gz">http://www.bainsware.com/downloads/obi-bio.tar.gz</ulink></term>
<listitem><para><acronym>OBI</acronym>'s Online Biographical Dictionary</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://www.bainsware.com/downloads/inaug.tar.gz"></ulink>http://www.bainsware.com/downloads/inaug.tar.gz</term>
<listitem><para>The Inaugural Addresses of all the US presidents</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

<para>You can find more databases on the link page of <ulink
url="http://www.dict.org">www.dict.org</ulink>, but the majority of them
are not formatted for <command>dictd</command>.</para>

<para>Each database consists of two files: The <literal
role="extension">*.index</literal> file contains the index and the
<literal role="extension">*.dict.dz</literal> file the actual
data. Unpack all packages into a folder of your choice, for example
<filename class="directory">/usr/share/dict/</filename>.</para>

</sect2>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="configuration-dictd">
<title>Configuration</title>

<para>You have to create/modify two configuration files. Both are stored
in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc</filename> if you used the default
installation prefix (<filename class="directory">/usr/local</filename>).</para>

<para><filename>dict.conf</filename> belongs to the basic
<command>dict</command> client.  It contains only one line:
<userinput>server localhost</userinput>. This tells
<command>dict</command> to use the local server.</para>

<para><filename>dictd.conf</filename> configures the server. First you
must add the access statement: <userinput>access {allow localhost
deny *}</userinput>.</para>

<para> This example grants only local access and blocks all external
connections.  You can use more than one allow and deny rule, for
example: <programlisting>access {allow localhost allow *.workgroup deny
*}</programlisting> The database statement configures the location of
the index and the data file for a database:
</para>


<programlisting>
    database web1913   { data "/usr/share/dict/web1913.dict.dz"
                         index "/usr/share/dict/web1913.index" }
                         </programlisting>

<para>You must add a statement for each database you want to use.</para>

<para>Now you should be able to start <command>dictd</command>
and to use it with <command>dict</command> and &kdict;.</para>

<para>Please consult the man page of <command>dictd</command>
for a complete description of <filename>dictd.conf</filename>.</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="starting-dictd">
<title>Starting <command>dictd</command> automatically</title>

<para>If you want to use the <command>dict</command> server
frequently, you might want to start it automatically during the startup
process of your system.  Some of the precomplied packages install a
suitable script, but you can also adapt the generic SYSV style script
included in the source distribution: <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/INITSCRIPT">ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/INITSCRIPT</ulink>.</para>
</sect1>

</appendix>

&documentation.index;

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