The release of GoldenDict 1.5.0 has been published, an application for working with dictionary data that supports various dictionary and encyclopedia formats and can display documents in HTML format using the WebKit engine. The project code is written in C++ using the Qt library and is distributed under the GPLv3+ license. Builds are supported for Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms.
Among its features is a tab-based graphical interface that allows for tooltip explanations of the meaning or translation of highlighted or clipboard text. When searching, it accounts for morphology and provides the ability to play correct audio pronunciations of words. Supported dictionary formats include StarDict, Babylon, Lingvo, Dictd, AARD, MDict, and SDict, with integration support for Wikipedia and MediaWiki-based sites.
The release of GoldenDict 1.5.0 is notable as it is published 10 years later than the originally planned release date (the last stable release was created in 2010, and version 1.5.0 was to be released in September 2013). Among the functional changes are:
- The codebase has been adapted for building with Qt5, and issues with modern graphical environments have been resolved.
- An integrated tooltip interface has been implemented.
- Support for FFmpeg 5.0 and file formats '.oga', '.webp', '.mpa', '.mp2', and '.opus' has been added.
- Support has been added for XDXF (XML Dictionary eXchange Format), PML (Pango Markup Language), SLOB, Epwing, ZIM, MDict (.mdx/.mdd), Aard (aar-html), Sdict, and GLS formats.
- Support for the DICT protocol has been implemented.
- Full-text search has been introduced, and regex-based search has been improved.
- A built-in multimedia player based on QMediaPlayer has been added.
- The ability to import query history from a file has been provided.
- The interface has been revamped to categorize dictionaries into groups.
- Options for 'copy as text' and 'copy image' have been added.
- The ability to place articles in a 'favorites' section has been added.
- A synonym search mode has been introduced.
- Support for encrypting keyword index files has been added.
- Support for touchscreen operation with gesture-based controls has been implemented.
Source: opennet.ru
