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The author announced on their forum that there will be no further development of Lingoes project.

Prooflink?

ikm wrote:Prooflink?

I checked again (the official forum in chinese). The author "Kevin" deleted the post now. maybe he drank too much last week.

strange again.
StarDict author (Hu Zheng), a devout buddhist, has been missing since last month.

belleyeah wrote:

ikm wrote:Prooflink?

I checked again (the official forum in chinese). The author "Kevin" deleted the post now. maybe he drank too much last week.

that could be the case.

dronelebeau wrote:

belleyeah wrote:

ikm wrote:Prooflink?

I checked again (the official forum in chinese). The author "Kevin" deleted the post now. maybe he drank too much last week.

that could be the case.

Heh. Can somebody get the specs for Lingoes dictionary format from him while he's drunk? He promised to open it up long, LONG ago!

belleyeah wrote:strange again.
StarDict author (Hu Zheng), a devout buddhist, has been missing since last month.

Not only that, but http://www.stardict.org/ is down and the StarDict's page on sourceforge is completely deleted (along with all the dictionaries that were collected there)...

I wonder what's going on.

Tvangeste wrote:Not only that, but http://www.stardict.org/ is down and the StarDict's page on sourceforge is completely deleted (along with all the dictionaries that were collected there)...
I wonder what's going on.

Interesting update on the stardict page: http://stardict.sourceforge.net/, the StarDict is no more.

StarDict hasn't seen any active development for many years, while the world around hasn't stood still. The following is the list of alternatives emerged during that time. You are advised to take a look and try them:

GoldenDict - designed as a StarDict successor, it supports its format, lots of other formats (Lingvo, Babylon etc), features tabbed browsing, morphology, live pronunciations, Wikipedia and so on. The program is constantly being improved and worked on

Long live StarDict!

Tvangeste wrote:

Tvangeste wrote:Not only that, but http://www.stardict.org/ is down and the StarDict's page on sourceforge is completely deleted (along with all the dictionaries that were collected there)...
I wonder what's going on.

Interesting update on the stardict page: http://stardict.sourceforge.net/, the StarDict is no more.

I'm still wondering what happened. Is the StarDict author missing? What are those copyright infringement reports?

Tvangeste wrote:

StarDict hasn't seen any active development for many years, while the world around hasn't stood still. The following is the list of alternatives emerged during that time. You are advised to take a look and try them:

GoldenDict - designed as a StarDict successor, it supports its format, lots of other formats (Lingvo, Babylon etc), features tabbed browsing, morphology, live pronunciations, Wikipedia and so on. The program is constantly being improved and worked on

Long live StarDict!

I think that page was written by ikm himself . See http://sourceforge.net/projects/stardict/

Now that the original StarDict project is gone, we could use its former url to publish a list of the alternatives which its users could migrate to instead.

I have never liked StarDict. Its look & feel didn't "look & feel" very native to me. As far as I know, there is nothing as good (and open source) as GoldenDict. That's why I'm using it everyday now and try to make my small contribution to improve it.

The other 2 candidates in my opinion are:
* Babylon: I have used this program for a long time. It used to be free (yeah! long long time ago) and now you have to paid even for the community-contributed glossaries.
* Lingoes: a nice clone of Babylon. Personally, I don't like free closed-source software (freeware): it usually happens that the authors change to a paid license down the road. Also, Lingoes has its own (yet again) close format so you have to convert existing dictionaries to its format (if at all possible).

What I like about both programs is that they have Currency, Time and a lot of other unit converters built-in. I would love to see this implemented at some point in GoldenDict.

lingoes died, stardict alive