{"id":386,"date":"2009-02-15T23:32:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T22:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2009\/02\/15\/van-dale-dictionaries-on-linux\/"},"modified":"2009-02-15T23:32:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T22:32:01","slug":"van-dale-dictionaries-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2009\/02\/15\/van-dale-dictionaries-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Dale dictionaries on linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After several rant mails to the Vandale publishers house, I finally gave in\/up. About a year ago, I complained that I couldn&#8217;t buy a linux version of my favorite Dutch dictionaries (not that there is a choice when it comes to digital Dutch dictionaries). Online dictionaries don&#8217;t cut it for me, I always need the words (or expressions) that free online ones don&#8217;t provide. \ud83d\ude09 The answer was that there does not exist a linux version. So I asked when the linux version would be released. The communication stalled but apparently it got escalated and I got an answer by another person telling me there was no linux version planned, however he was delighted to announce the availability of a Mac version within only 3 months!<\/p>\n<p>You know this smiley banging its head against the wall? That&#8217;s me, banging my head&#8230; How can they be so stupid to port to another platform and not take cross-platform toolkits into account?? I couldn&#8217;t help myself, so I started to lecture &#8220;cross-platform 101&#8221;. \ud83d\ude09 I am not sure if I was able to get through to him, but I hope at least a few fragments stuck in his mind. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, they do have a mac version. I never received a reply to my plea. So I decided to give it a try under wine. Surprise, surprise (not), it works! (using the win2k installer patch). Sometimes, wine can really be a godsend. For the occasion, I created a few desktop icons since the original ones suck badly.<\/p>\n<p>I created them by drawing bezier curves with the original icon from the website in overlay. It actually sounds easier as it sounds. \ud83d\ude42 I had to tweak my beziers quite a bit to have a somewhat appealing result. Since this will probably be the last time I will take a KDE3 screenshot (still on my suse 10.3), I decided to post a screenshot of the icons with my desktop in full glory \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<center><a href='https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/vandale_icons.jpg' title='Vandale icons'><img src='https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/vandale_icons.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Vandale icons' \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAlso spot the home-made icon for Cave Story, but that&#8217;s merely a rip from the game resources \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nHere are the icons in case you want them too:<br \/>\n<a href='https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/vandale_en.png' title='vandale icon English'><img src='https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/vandale_en.png' alt='vandale icon English' \/><\/a><a href='https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/vandale_fr.png' title='vandale icon French'><img src='https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/vandale_fr.png' alt='vandale icon French' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several rant mails to the Vandale publishers house, I finally gave in\/up. About a year ago, I complained that I couldn&#8217;t buy a linux version of my favorite Dutch dictionaries (not that there is a choice when it comes to digital Dutch dictionaries). Online dictionaries don&#8217;t cut it for me, I always need the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2009\/02\/15\/van-dale-dictionaries-on-linux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Van Dale dictionaries on linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}