Hi Laurent, Laurent Godard wrote:
> Yes we want to get rid off DicOOo > Yes it is old, crap and badly desgigned > (do not expect better for a basis coded in 2 days) > > But, and it is a major BUT > I has been working for users for now 4 years > It is multiplatform, multilingual and users can use it and have their > dictionaries. The selfupdate mechanism has been implemented because in > 2003, the release cycle was around 1 year/1.5 year ... > > If people are uncomfortable with it, hey recode it. But not only for > your own platform/distro, it has to suits all the plateform and more > important be user-friendly > > For accepting macro message this is wrong as DicOOo is integrated in the > File > Wizard menu and do not ask for any confirmation. It is launched > as any other wizards > > So people complain, i understand them > And as i already told to Mathias and Thomas, i'm ready to help to get > rid of DicOOo > But i won't drop DicOOo if i do not have a solution for basic end-users > to get a dictionary installed easilly. > > For other self-happy people giving lessons, please come and code instead > of giving lengthy to-do-lists. Give a working solution that solve the > Dicooo problem and everybody will be happy It sounds as you feel a little bit offended and perhaps rightly so. So I want to say that I was thankful for having DicOOo as a stopgag solution for an urgent user problem. So if something was to blame here, it wouldn't be DicOOo. I agree with you that complaining without actually doing something is a waste of time. That's the reason why I started thinking about ways to solve the problem in the right[TM] way some time ago and - as you wrote - talked about that with you and others. To my knowledge in 2003 the distributions haven't been ready for a "system" spell checking idea and even today it will be a hard way to move that forward. Reasons are e.g. the missing standardization on pathes and spellcheckers and the different uses cases as mentioned by Marcin, just to name a few. But we are willing to get that going. So let's look forward and don't bash a tool that was created in the good will to support users and their urgent problems because nobody else did it. Today there is only one platform that has something that can be called a "system spell checker" and this is MacOS. And OOo will support it. I hope that can be extended to free OS as well. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
