Hi, On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:01, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
> There is no configuration done. Though, it may be good idea to have > dictionaries automatically configured for the running or selected > locale. However, I don't really want to enforce too many defaults that > users may not appreciate. Say, system locale is English but user wants > French configured for example for UI and spellchecking. I guess the installer could see that if only one language is specified at the start, perhaps the spell-checking will be auto-installed based on locale? If there is more than one language selected, maybe the installer could explicitly suggest to the user to check out which dictionary they want to install? I suggest this thinking of someone who is somewhat ignorant and new and thinking "my gosh the spell-checking in the word processor doesn't even work and the checkbox to add it is grayed out"... they won't necessarily have the skill to know how to fix it (even though it is actually quite easy when you know where to look). But of course I agree with you that installing stuff without giving the user control is also potentially highly annoying. For instance the ViaVoice package IBM made for 7.2 / 8.0 powerpack: if you wish to run the US English version, you must set your locale as en_US even if you don't want to, because the code is set up so that if you run anything other than en_US, it just refuses to run. I think some Linux novices within IBM coded that one ;-) Kind regards, Damon
