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[Christian Dywan <christian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's also xfce4-clipman which hijacks the selection of any
application to show a context menu, showing user-defined commands.
Without having seen it, it sounds like OS X does exactly that?

On 10/10/2012 09:01 AM, Sam Tate wrote:
>
> Yep, that was the inspiration. It was more of a concept than anything
> that was going to be made 1:1 in L+1. I'll come up with some more
> concepts for this later this afternoon.
>
> On 10 Oct 2012 07:53, "Cassidy James" <cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <mailto: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. 
>
>         El oct 9, 2012, a las 11:43 p.m., Cassidy James
>         <cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 ;)
>>
>>                 On 9 October 2012 22:33, Sam Tate <s@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>                 <mailto:s@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>                     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
>>

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