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------- Additional comments from mux2...@openoffice.org Wed Feb 4 08:28:48 +0000 2009 ------- As requested by andreschnabel, some comments on why it's useful to include the dictionary in the language pack: - Consistency: I expect en_US package + de_DE langpack to have the same features as de_DE package + en_US langpack - Avoid non-working UI: If you install en_US package + de_DE langpack, you get an OpenOffice.org that looks broken. Everything is German but spell checking simply doesn't work. a) The as-you-type spellcheck button can be activated and deactivated as usual but has no effect (since the default language is set to German by the langpack install). b) Selecting Extras/Rechtschreibung und Grammatik has a very strange effect. It pops up the spellcheck dialog, but the dropdown "Sprache des Wörterbuchs" is empty. This alone is confusing but it gets worse. There's a modal popup window asking you "Überprüfung am Anfang des Dokuments fortsetzen?", which is nonsensical since from the user's POV the check has not even started. If you say "Ja" you get "Die Rechtschreibprüfung ist abgeschlossen." and the whole dialog goes away. You don't even get the chance to access the "Sprache des Wörterbuchs" checkbox (which might give a knowledgable user a clue as to the missing dictionary). IOW, after you install the de_DE langpack, OOo simply appears to be partially broken to users and even very experienced OOo users (such as myself and my collegues) can not tell what the problem is. It took us quite some time to diagnose the lack of the German spelling dictionary in the langpack as the problem. Of course there are possible fixes to the above usability issues, such as greying out the as-you-type spellcheck button combined with an informative message "You don't have a spelling dictionary installed for the currently selected language. Spellcheck can not be performed." when selecting "Rechtschreibung und Grammatik..." and I won't argue with you that with these fixes in place it may be (just may) okay to leave the spelling dictionary out of the langpack. But as long as these usability (and support) horrors exist, putting the spellcheck dictionary back in the langpack is the proper fix. ================= That being said, is there a simple workaround to get the dictionary built into the langpack again? We're doing our own builds (Debian Linux) and we now face the problem that we'd have to manually create a Debian package for the spellcheck dictionary and to change the package lists of our LiMux Basisclient to install it, which is an effort that we'd like to avoid. It would be much easier if we could just get it included in the langpack .deb package again. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@installation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@installation.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
