Mathias Bauer pisze:
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.
If you are using Sun builds under Linux, you have to be root to install
the build (rpm doesn't normally work for non-root users), and, as a
result, the bundled dictionary extensions are installed for all users
and as an individual user, you're not told there are newer versions.
So the update doesn't work for the individual user - which is not very
convenient, as admins don't normally run application software under root
accounts. As a result, they won't even know there are newer versions of
the bundled extensions.
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.
I don't think this is needed. We just need a mechanism of overriding the
dictionaries installed for all users by dictionaries installed for
individual users.
Regards
Marcin
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