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Artha - An open cross-platform thesaurus based on WordNet ======================================================================================= Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Sundaram Ramaswamy, <legends2k@yahoo.com> Overview -------- Artha is a cross-platform open-source thesaurus with WordNet as its database. The main focus of Artha is high usuability, with much simplicity. It has distinct features like: * hotkey press - word lookup (select text and press a hotkey for look-up) * regex-based search (find words using wildcards like *, ?, etc.) * passive desktop notifications (of word definitions for uninterruped workflow) * spelling suggestions (when the exactly spelling is vaguely/not known) Once launched, Artha sits on the system tray. The user can select text on any window, and summon Artha by pressing the user-set hotkey combination, which pops up Artha with the word looked-up. Should you want passive notifications without Artha's window popping up so that your workflow is undisturbed, it can be done by enabling the 'Notifications' option. This results in a desktop notification (balloon tip) of the selected word's prime definition from WordNet, from the system tray, when the hothey is pressed. Technically, Artha is written in pure C using the GTK+ widget kit & Glib, making it cross-desktop and cross-platform. It uses libnotify for the desktop notifications and lienchant for spelling suggestions. It may be used as a advanced replacement for WordWeb in GNU/Linux environments. Currently different flavours of GNU/Linux are targeted, but porting to other UNIX-like systems, Mac OS X and Windows will commence soon. Installation ------------ Artha requires the development headers of GTK+-2.12.x, GLib-2.14 and WordNet-3.x (minimum required version numbers are specified). Simple install procedure: $ tar xvf <package_name> # unpack the sources or $ gzip -cd <package_name> # alternative to above $ cd artha-<version> # change to the toplevel directory $ ./configure # run the `configure' script $ make # build artha [ Become root by 'su' or 'sudo' ] # make install # install artha Read the 'INSTALL' file for detailed information. Bugs & Queries -------------- Suggestions, bugs and queries are welcome! You can post them at http://launchpad.net/artha/+filebug Licence ------- Artha is free software. You are free to use, modify and redistribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING for a detailed licence. More Information ---------------- Visit project home at http://artha.sourceforge.net/ for more information.