On 10 Apr 2007, at 14:22, Jancs wrote:
Hi!
I got a question from one large OO user regrding possibility to
incorporate
lv_LV dictionary in official distro.
While i like such idea, i do not like the possible result to what i
may come -
inclusion of all existing dictionaries which meets licencing
requirements.
In the same time - with all my respect to the authors etc.etc. - an
average user
may even do not know where on the Earth, for example, Swahili is
used or for
what purpose he gets Thai or Chech dictionaries, along with bunch
of other
languages he definitely will never use.
What solutions i see:
1. do not include any dic at all, but to modify installator in the
way it asks
for the necessary set of dictionaries during installation;
2. include some "imperial" languages like English, French, German,
Spanish, but
in the same time giving to user the possibility to modify this set
(add/remove)
during installation;
Please remember that on the Mac we have a drag an drop installer,
thus would cause a problem for a system install. Also remember that
ooo is usually used in multiuser environments whereby some users will
have some dictionaries whilst other users on the same system will not
have the dictionaries installed. Therefore using the user welcome
installer or using a dictionary installation similar to extensions
would be a better choice.
Shaun
There, of course is some drawback - necessity to have internet
connection which
could be solved by division of distro in two parts - (like KDE, for
example) -
OO base package (platform dependent, including _limited_ set of dic
or even just
two flavours of English) and dictionaries pack (platform
independent) to make this independent from internet connection.
It is easier if you have fully localized OO, but there are not much
of them.
The current approch is more or less OK for individual, but it
becomes slightly
annoying if you have to do some 10-20 installations/updates a day
Janis
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