On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 21:50 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Hi, > > Well, I didn't really intend to post this, but since I've subscribed anyway. > > The SUN OpenOffice.org people are considering an extremely complex > firefox-like extension system for distribute their hunspell > dictionaries. The reasoning being: > > 1. dictionnaries have to be distributed separately from OO.o (users > wouldn't like a full-dict huge download, or dicts have incompatible > licenses), > > 2. linux distributions will never agree on a standard place to put > dictionaries, so complex registration mechanisms are needed to ensure > dict distribution works in all cases : > > > It's no problem to have platform dependent pathes for OOo. The problem > > is that there is no "Linux" setting for this, only a "$(distro)" way > > of doing it. > > So can you put the SUN guys out of their misery and define an "official" > root for hunspell dicts?
Why would this be any more complicated than adding HUNSPELL_DICT_DIR=/usr/share/myspell to /etc/profile ? _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
