Clipboard-utils is a project mainly written in Python, it's free.
Perform some useful actions on your clipboard contents.
The idea is that you select some text, and instantly, you have some action processed on that selection; ie. translation, dictionary, etc.
IN THIS RELEASE By now, it only acts as a translator. More features to come.
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS Gnome based desktop, and Python 2.6.5, with: gtk, glib, urllib, json.
Tested on Ubuntu 10.04 i686.
INSTALLATION Access the "clipboard-utils" folder and execute "python playwords.py", and you'll have translation capabilities from english to spanish.
GETTING STARTED Edit the file "playword.py", and change the variables "LANG_FROM" and "LANG_TO" in order to have diferent translations.
CAVEATS To end the program, you have to kill it directly.
When you select some text in Google Chrome, it doesn't wait untill you release the mouse button; instead, it tries to translate each letter it encounters.
It just has the translation feature.