swedebu...@riseup.net writes: > Hi > > We currently have neither langpacks, dictionaries nor add-ons for Icecat > packaged. > > This forces the users to install them iperatively through Icecat which > for the case of dictionaries entails getting an error when following the > "add dictionaries" menu-link in Icecat to an old mozilla-page. > > Installing via the new mozilla dictionary UI page here does work though > (swedish): > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g%C3%B6rans-hemmasnickrade-ordli/ > > Clicking install downloads and loads this file: > https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/1163981/swedish_dictionary-1.18.1webext.xpi > > The langpacks are provided by upstream here: > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/60.3.0/langpacks/ > > Add-ons installation support is buggy as has been reported here: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2018-12/msg00004.html > > We can do better than this! > > I beleive all these problems could be solved easily if we would package > these in guix and make sure our Icecat looks for them in the right > place. > > Perhaps a new mozilla-importer and mozilla-build-system is a worthwhile > project? It should unpack and install the .xpi-files. There is an API > available for the add-ons repository: > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/AMO/Add-ons_manager_API > > An example output is this: > https://services.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/api/1.5/addon/1865 > > If we package the langpacks and dictionaries from the upstream links I > hope we can update them with "guix refresh".
This sounds like a splendid idea! -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus