Re: [libreoffice-l10n] A possible future for LO help/lang packs?
Hi, Von: Martin Srebotnjak mi...@filmsi.net An: l10n@libreoffice.org just thinking loud (hope it is not too loud): is it possible to* make help packs into extensions* (oxt files)? I tried this briefly for one of the LibO beta versions. In theory the mechanism is there but in reality I ended up with a mix of English and German help. Maybe this could be fixed, but the no-go for me was that the activation of the extension took about half an hour (on a Windows7 DualCore AMD PC). ... The drawbacks: - the extension framework maybe needs to be extended a bit to support help It does already, but currently it builds index files on installing / activating the extension what takes a lot of time. I have no idea if we could prebuild the index and put this into the extension. Regards, André -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to l10n+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/l10n/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-l10n] A possible future for LO help/lang packs?
Hi Martin, 2011.02.07 13:37, Martin Srebotnjak rašė: Hi, just thinking loud (hope it is not too loud): is it possible to* make help packs into extensions* (oxt files)? Could this also be done with the lang-packs? The benefits: - *smaller file size*: extensions are great, because they are not executables and all the execution/installation code already lies within LO/OOo; - *lower cost of building/hosting*: a help pack would need to be built just once for all supported (and unsupported) operating systems; - *user-friendly*: a help pack can be dropped onto Extension Manager, double-clicked etc. It can also be downloaded at the last phase of the installation process with an installer on Windows and Linux etc. (an installer downloading and running another installer seems not so nice). - *localizer-friendly*: maybe Pootle server could be extended to generate helppacks (langpacks) daily/weekly or by demand - for testing purposes as well as for the release purposes; The drawbacks: - the extension framework maybe needs to be extended a bit to support help installation via extensions (but if needed at all that seems a reasonable investment to me, not knowing how much work that would present :) ); I think that it's a VERY VERY VERY good idea. ;) Rimas -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to l10n+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/l10n/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [Libreoffice] [libreoffice-l10n] A possible future for LO help/lang packs?
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 13:12 +0100, Andre Schnabel wrote: Von: Martin Srebotnjak mi...@filmsi.net .. just thinking loud (hope it is not too loud): is it possible to* make help packs into extensions* (oxt files)? Sounds (to me) like a really good idea :-) May not work well for Linux - where you want the help installed in the system, but that is different enough anyway. I tried this briefly for one of the LibO beta versions. In theory the mechanism is there but in reality I ended up with a mix of English and German help. Maybe this could be fixed, but the no-go for me was that the activation of the extension took about half an hour (on a Windows7 DualCore AMD PC). Lol :-) that does sound deadly silly. It does already, but currently it builds index files on installing / activating the extension what takes a lot of time. I have no idea if we could prebuild the index and put this into the extension. Oh - we can certainly special case / disable that for our extensions that already come with a pre-built help index. Better, we should speed up the indexing with clucene; but that is all quite do-able. It would help to have a stack trace of quite how the slowness gets called in that case though (if that is possible to get on Windows). Martin - is that something you might be interested in working on ? and/or if not - could you add it as an easy hack - which will need some research doing on it to make it easy [ samples of other code that packs extensions, thoughts on solving path problems on Mac vs. Windows etc. ]. ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to l10n+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/l10n/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
