Marcin Miłkowski wrote: >>> 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.
I will ask the UNO developers about that. > 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. The update inside OOo doesn't, yes. Updates can be installed by an external process (not by OOo itself), so there is another option: OOo could start this external process and try to get super user rights for it. This should work on all modern consumer Linux distributions. >> 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. I don't like the mixed state with bundled extensions and updates installed per user - that's a mess. I think I will ask the UNO developers what they think about the "sudo" approach. 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
