On 3/15/2010 9:43 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> Not everyone uses Firefox or OpenOffice, so I think we should not rely
> on the dictionaries installed by other applications.
But what if they are already installed at LyX installation time? Quite
frankly, when I am on Windows, I hate having to install 3 different
dictionaries for OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird... Couldn't we
optionally ask the user if she wants to reuse any such installed
dictionaries?
I'm not sure about this. We could add an import feature to reuse e.g.
Firefox dictionaries, but there's no way to be sure it won't break when
Firefox is updated or when they update hunspell etc. It also introduces
additional complexity; apps like Firefox can be installed for all users
or for the current user (possibly not matching the way LyX is
installed), extensions can be local/global etc.
I think a simple wizard that allows you to check which languages you
need would maybe work best. This wizard would download a list with links
to the latest dictionaries (probably OpenOffice extensions) from the LyX
server.
Joost
