I too think this a great idea, in part because it is so often overlooked. I never thought about it before but yes it is an annoyance that I never thought there was a solution.
Drew On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Stuart Langridge < stuart.langri...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 15:03 +0000, Samuel Mehrbrodt wrote: > > Are there any plans to have dictionary syncing? I think that would be > > very useful for a lot of people, because it's always annoying to when > > you add a word to a dictionary and then go to another computer, you have > > to add it again. Then I install a new version of Ubuntu, of course I > > forget to backup the dictionary. > > > > So that would be a really good feature. > > I don't know which format the dictionary used by Ubuntu is and how > > complicated it is to sync and merge it, maybe someone else can tell. > > I rather like this idea, but I am not sure that there is one and only > one "user dictionary". I think that there might be a number of them. > > I've just established that the word "Ubuntero" is underlined as > misspelled in Evolution, Firefox, and OpenOffice Writer. Adding that > word to the dictionary in Evolution does not add it to the dictionaries > in Firefox or OpenOffice Writer. So syncing the dictionary is hard, > because there isn't only one dictionary to sync, which is rather > annoying. If you can establish where all the dictionaries are, it > wouldn't be too difficult to either explain how to sync them with Ubuntu > One or (better) write a small program which handles that for you (and > then perhaps we could look at bundling that program with Ubuntu One > itself). > > sil > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuone-users > Post to : ubuntuone-users@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuone-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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