Wikit is a free and open-source dictionary program that enable you translate word for different languages

wikit contains the following components

• Wikit CLI

  A CLI tool which can be used to create wikit dictionary from plain text or other dictionary format.

• Wikit Desktop

  Desktop application for Windows, Linux and MacOS which is developed using tauri and yew.

  

• Wikit Mobile

  Mobile application for Android, it's under planning.

Installation and Usage

You can download Wikit CLI and Wikit Desktop from Release page.

To install dictionary, see Wikit Introduction for detail.

For Linux user, you can create a file in path ~/.local/share/applications/com.zhqli.wikit.desktop (create if the path does not exist) with the following content:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Wikit Desktop
Comment=A universal dictionary
Path=/path/to/wikit
Exec=/path/to/wikit/wikit-desktop.AppImage 
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;
Keywords=dictionary;dict;

You should change Path and Exec to your own, and run update-desktop-database

update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications

after that you can open wikit desktop from your dash.

If you are bother with the manual installation on linux, you can install it from flathub.

For Windows user, you must additionally install webview2 and vc_redist.x86 or vc_redist.x64.

Developement

Install following tools

cargo install tauri-cli trunk

# rust for android target
rustup target add aarch64-linux-android armv7-linux-androideabi i686-linux-android x86_64-linux-android

# sdkmanager is from cmdline-tools https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line
sdkmanager "platforms;android-31" "platform-tools" "build-tools;31.0.0" "cmake;3.22.1" "ndk;25.1.8937393"

Create a file named .env under directory desktop/ui with content

BROWSER=none
PORT=8080

To develop wikit CLI

cd cli
cargo build

To develop wikit desktop

cd desktop
cargo tauri dev

To develop wikit mobile

cd android
make start

Building

To build wikit CLI

cd cli
cargo build --release

To build wikit desktop

cd desktop
cargo tauri build

To build wikit mobile

cd android
make release

License

MIT