<s>
GNOME	B-Language
Dictionary	I-Language
,	O
also	O
called	O
gnome-dictionary	B-Language
,	O
is	O
a	O
DICT	B-Library
client	I-Library
written	O
in	O
C	B-Language
by	O
Emmanuele	O
Bassi	O
and	O
others	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
free	B-Application
software	I-Application
GNOME	B-Application
desktop	I-Application
suite	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
gnome-dictionary	B-Language
was	O
at	O
first	O
an	O
independent	O
DICT	B-Library
protocol	O
client	O
called	O
gdict	O
,	O
created	O
by	O
Bradford	O
Hovinen	O
,	O
Spiros	O
Papadimitriou	O
and	O
Mike	O
Hughes	O
;	O
it	O
was	O
included	O
inside	O
the	O
gnome-utils	O
meta-package	O
during	O
the	O
1.x	O
release	O
cycle	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
companion	O
to	O
the	O
original	O
application	O
was	O
also	O
added	O
an	O
applet	B-Language
for	O
gnome-panel	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
the	O
2.0	O
release	O
of	O
GNOME	B-Application
,	O
due	O
to	O
lack	O
of	O
direct	O
maintainership	O
,	O
the	O
code	O
base	O
of	O
gdict	O
passed	O
the	O
point	O
of	O
being	O
maintainable	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
2005	O
,	O
the	O
current	O
maintainer	O
of	O
gnome-dictionary	B-Language
Emmanuele	O
Bassi	O
decided	O
to	O
rewrite	O
the	O
application	O
and	O
applet	B-Language
from	O
scratch	O
,	O
removing	O
the	O
old	O
(	O
and	O
mostly	O
deprecated	O
)	O
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
new	O
gnome-dictionary	B-Language
was	O
added	O
to	O
GNOME	B-Application
during	O
the	O
2.13	O
development	O
cycle	O
and	O
became	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
2.14	O
GNOME	B-Application
release	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
logic	O
of	O
the	O
application	O
and	O
the	O
applet	B-Language
has	O
been	O
moved	O
inside	O
its	O
own	O
shared	B-Library
library	I-Library
called	O
libgdict	O
which	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
by	O
third-party	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
July	O
2006	O
the	O
development	O
version	O
of	O
gnome-dictionary	B-Language
became	O
feature	O
equivalent	O
to	O
the	O
pre-2.14	O
release	O
,	O
with	O
the	O
addition	O
of	O
the	O
list	O
of	O
similar	O
words	O
found	O
(	O
also	O
known	O
as	O
speller	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
