On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Jaime R. Garza <[email protected]> wrote: > But why only for Thunderbird? > > Why not make an open container (or just modularize the existing one with a > well defined interface) to will allow any application to use the resources > (e.g. dictionaries) and have full integration with all LO resources?
Isn't this what freedesktop.org standards are for? A standard for spell checking libraries (I mean the library of words, not the software library) shared across all open-source programs would be very useful. Such a thing has already been proposed: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-language-checking-spec So rather than trying to get other groups to write wrappers to integrate with libo's own spelling dictionary, I think it would be much better if there was a single, standard dictionary format that all open-source programs shared. Any program that implements the standard will automatically get support for the same dictionaries. This avoids each program needing to write compatibility layers for every other program. So I think putting some effort into getting this standard ironed out would be very beneficial to a lot of projects. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
