Jaime i only said Thunderbird cuz that's the client i use. there are
tons of others.
Todd i totally agree a standard needs to be reached. like there is the
ODF format a standardized dictionary format would be a great idea.
On 1/2/11 3:54 AM, todd rme wrote:
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.
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