On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 20:55, Martin Sevior wrote: > On 27 Jan 2003, Marc Maurer wrote: > > > > I don't know what the "user" community thinks of this feature and > > > its benefits and therefore I leave it to better heads to determine if it > > > belongs in AbiWord sources and to maintain it. > > > > I've seen quite a lot of users happy with this feature on Forums. I > > haven't seens a single complaint, and that in a time were trolls > > propulate the boards. > > > > Besides that, I think it's a really nice feature to have. If anyone > > wants to bitch against it, let them build Abi without the downloader or > > fork Abi and remove the whole thing. > > > > I agree with Marc. I used it and liked it. However the issue of what to do > if/when sourceforge goes out of business and we have that website compiled > into the code, needs to be addressed.
I'm glad that some people find it useful. But i'm sadly out of motivation for developing it. :( At least the current scheme includes a flag in the dictionary-list (downloaded from abisource.com) that can be set to disable the feature. With a dialog-box informing of this, the first time. After that it's completely disabled. Also, the download hosts comes within the dictionary-list (so we could for example change to download the dictionaries from savannah if we like). I tried to think ahead. Take care /Gabriel
