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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mac OS has this feature as a popover. You can select text anywhere and get a "Look Up %word" item in the context menu.

A while back, Christian had suggested that we could do such a thing with a (Possibly Contractor powered) GTK module. 

Best Regards,
Daniel Foré

El oct 9, 2012, a las 11:43 p.m., Cassidy James <cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> Sam,
> 
> Interesting concept. It reminds me a lot of the most recent update to Google Books on Android with the definition and place cards. I'm not sure this would be the best implementation across all apps, but could be useful in reading apps. ;)
> 
> Check out the blueprint Sergey linked to for my desired implementation.
> 
> On Oct 9, 2012 11:47 PM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Somebody came up with this before you: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/contractor/+spec/add-to-secondary-click
>> Still, thanks for the mockup :)
>> 
>> 2012/10/10 Sam Tate <s@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/118289670350117354716/posts/e7HCNnvuDqs
>>> Always helps to reference the thing that you are talking about in your email ;)
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> A rather foolish Sam Tate
>>> 
>>> On 9 October 2012 22:33, Sam Tate <s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Greetings,
>>>> 
>>>> I took Dan's awesome AppCentre Mockup and added a dictionary overlay on it. This would work system wide (so for any app that has select-able text) and mousing over it would expand it to the larger centered one.
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe in the future it could house other functions too?
>>>> 
>>>> Just something to think about :P
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Sam Tate
>>> 
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