Marcin Miłkowski wrote: > Mathias Bauer pisze: >> Russell Butler wrote: >> >>> Mathias Bauer wrote: >>>> Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote: >>>> >>>>> b) If you list is larger and especially if you want to provide that >>>>> word-list for other as well, then you should create a dictionary >>>>> extension from it. >>>> Hm. But where in the UI would we see the dictionary? I tried it with an >>>> example and I couldn't see any hint for its existence in Tools-Options. >>>> How can users see that the dictionary is used? >>>> >>>> Ciao, >>>> Mathias >>>> >>> Not often I can contribute in this exalted company, but as the >>> dictionary would be installed as an extension, you would see it in the >>> extension manager. It is not visible in the language settings, other >>> than that the parent language would be indicated. It could therefore be >>> enabled and disabled from that interface, if desired. >> >> Sure, but this is probably not where users will look for it. I was >> aiming at a discussion whether we should extend our configuration schema >> to allow for showing which dictionariesn are used (and not only that >> there is at least one dictionary for a particular language). > > Why wouldn't they look there? I mean for many languages, the first thing > that happens after you install OpenOffice.org is checking for updates, > and you get a prompt to update the dictionaries - this is why so many > dictionary extensions have so many downloads at the extension site. > After you do that, you are shown the extension manager, so you see the > dictionaries there. > > I know it doesn't happen for English, but that's not the only language > out there ;)
Well, yes, let's see. Maybe I'm just seeing things. :-) Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "nospamfor...@gmx.de". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org
