Discussion: Add support for other dictionaries by making the app plugin based

[doronbehar]

First of all, I wanted to say it's a fantastic dictionary app and it is beautifully designed, so thank you so much for your wonderful contribution :)

I've been looking for a while now for a FOSS dictionary app and this app is for sure the best I've encountered in so far. There aren't that many solutions in the FOSS world for this problem¹ and this is a great start.

I've been thinking and maybe there should be an API for developers to write plugins for this app with other free to use dictionaries like gcide and wikitionary that will update their database once in a while and users will be able to choose the dictionaries/plugins they would like to enable in the settings.

I will be happy to hear your thoughts :)

BTW, this one slightly off-topic but I'm wondering, why is this app called Poet Assistant? It is practically a dictionary app with one special dictionary for rhymes. What if it was just called dictionary? It could be wiser from a marketing standpoint and noting the rhymes 'dictionary' as an additional feature.