Any news on the list of dictionaries that can be installed through the wizard? and on the dictionary languages that cannot be added as an entry?
Olivier R. wrote: > Hello, > > Mathias Bauer a écrit : > >> The main reason for the new mechanism was that the old one was broken by >> design. And updating is quite easy for users now as extensions can be >> updated at any time you want and users can get automatic notifications >> about that. This will help distributing updated versions very quickly. >> >> I agree that for developers it was easier to handle it the old way - but >> I think first we want to make it easier for users (and less error-prone >> BTW), not first for developers. :-) >> >> And for development purposes there is a way to get back the old way. >> When an extension is installed it is unpacked into a sub directory of >> $(user)/uno_packages. Just search for it and replace the file in that >> folder if you want to check your updated dictionary. >> >> Perhaps we should publish this hint for developers somewhere. Any idea >> what might be the best place? > > Probably here: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries > > There is already a note about tools for developers, and this wiki page > contains a lot of external links towards dictionaries maintainers > sites. They probably keep an eye on this wiki page, to edit it for > updates. > > I don't know how OOo developers usually communicate to native-lang > leaders, but I wonder if each of them knows that the dictionary.lst > system will disappear for OOo 3.0 and that no dictionaries will be > bundled in the "vanilla OOo install set", and that it has been planned > to include some dictionaries as extension in localized builds. > > When I talked to the french team, they knew nothing about that, and I > had to digg in the website to find back the information and prove what > I said was true (It has been said on this mailing-list and somewhere > in IssueZilla*, that's all, I believe). No extension was planned to be > included in the french localization, so no dictionary by default. But > maybe that will change now...? > > Regards, > Olivier R. > > * http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81365 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ Easily edit your photos like a pro with Photo Gallery. http://get.live.com/photogallery/overview
