Marcin Miłkowski wrote: > Mathias Bauer pisze: >> Marcin Miłkowski wrote: >> >>> Mathias Bauer pisze: >>>> Russell Butler wrote: >>>> >>>>> Mathias Bauer wrote: >>>>>> Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> b) If you list is larger and especially if you want to provide that >>>>>>> word-list for other as well, then you should create a dictionary >>>>>>> extension from it. >>>>>> Hm. But where in the UI would we see the dictionary? I tried it with an >>>>>> example and I couldn't see any hint for its existence in Tools-Options. >>>>>> How can users see that the dictionary is used? >>>>>> >>>>>> Ciao, >>>>>> Mathias >>>>>> >>>>> Not often I can contribute in this exalted company, but as the >>>>> dictionary would be installed as an extension, you would see it in the >>>>> extension manager. It is not visible in the language settings, other >>>>> than that the parent language would be indicated. It could therefore be >>>>> enabled and disabled from that interface, if desired. >>>> Sure, but this is probably not where users will look for it. I was >>>> aiming at a discussion whether we should extend our configuration schema >>>> to allow for showing which dictionariesn are used (and not only that >>>> there is at least one dictionary for a particular language). >>> Why wouldn't they look there? I mean for many languages, the first thing >>> that happens after you install OpenOffice.org is checking for updates, >>> and you get a prompt to update the dictionaries - this is why so many >>> dictionary extensions have so many downloads at the extension site. >>> After you do that, you are shown the extension manager, so you see the >>> dictionaries there. >>> >>> I know it doesn't happen for English, but that's not the only language >>> out there ;) >> >> Well, yes, let's see. Maybe I'm just seeing things. :-) > > Well, it's not such a bad idea to redesign the Extension Manager to > create a separate tab for dictionaries only. Another glitch is that > under Unix systems, you cannot update your dictionary extension (well, > you can, but you're not told you can! - automatic update doesn't try to > download a new version and install it for your account).
If the dictionary is installed for a single user, the update should work (at least in Sun builds). If the dictionary is installed for all users, it must be downloaded and installed separately with admin rights. Another option would be to deploy the extensions as native packages (as for some Firefox extensions) containing a script with a custom action that installs the extension. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "nospamfor...@gmx.de". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org
