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[Cassidy James <cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's the aforementioned Google Books implementation. First shot is when
highlighting, second is after tapping the card.
On Oct 10, 2012 1:47 AM, "Daniel Foré" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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