On 10 Apr 2007, at 14:50, Rich wrote:
On 2007.04.10. 16:22, Jancs wrote:
[..]
What solutions i see:
1. do not include any dic at all, but to modify installator in the
way it asks
for the necessary set of dictionaries during installation;
2. include some "imperial" languages like English, French, German,
Spanish, but
in the same time giving to user the possibility to modify this set
(add/remove)
during installation;
There, of course is some drawback - necessity to have internet
connection which
i believe a _requirement_ to have internet connection would be
unaceptable...
+1 language packs need to be installed offline _or_ online.
could be solved by division of distro in two parts - (like KDE,
for example) -
OO base package (platform dependent, including _limited_ set of
dic or even just
two flavours of English) and dictionaries pack (platform
independent) to make this independent from internet connection.
...but having separate lang packages might work. of course, these
should be displayed _very_ prominently on the download page,
especially after the change is done.
given that dictionary data is more or less platform-independent (is
it ?), that would make more or less single package for each
language (and a single compound package).
this would
a) reduce download size (which in turn reduces amount of data for
individual updates within organisations) and
b) make installing additional languages very easy by creating them
as native packages (distributions would just ship/create separate
packages as usual).
The core OpenOffice.org package should be the only item that is
installed by a native installer. Language packs (and/or dictionaries)
need to be done in a platform independent way. This is not currently
the case. I'm currently looking into working with others to change
this language packs so that they are platform independent.
http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2007/03/openofficeorg-language-
pack-revamp.html for more commentary. There is some items on the
extensions and ux mailing lists too.
[..]
Shaun
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