On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Kumara Bhikkhu <[email protected]> wrote:
> At the same time I also understand the demand for
> single language versions. Wanting a lighter
> program is one. The other is the perception that
> "If it's meant for dozens of languages, it
> probably doesn't do one well." I'm speaking for
> myself as that's the idea I had when I was
> looking for a grammar checker extension.

I'm one of the 'why do I need all this stuff? I don't speak these
languages anyway'-guys. Therefore +1 for individual language
modules/extensions.

> Installing plugins over a plugin may be fine for
> us, but may confuse some users. It also demands
> more work, which I think is not worth doing, at least for the time being.

That's also my opinion. LO/OO seem to have the idea of introducing
dependencies for extensions but the current implementation just
supports the version of LO/OO and the it's not even user-friendly
implemented because missing dependencies will result in an error
dialog 
(http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Extensions/Dependencies)
instead of allowing the user to download the dependencies.

LO/OO provides dictionaries when installing it. Can't we use them
instead of our own hunspell dictionaries? Languages such as german
stiff have a huge grammar.xml beside the dictionary, but leaving out
the dictionaries is already a huge win: the ZIP has a size of ~24 MB
instead of ~44 MB.

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