> Is it a bug or a feature ?

It is a feature until somebody provides working code to do otherwise, and 
explains why it is better.

It is an useful feature, even. See below.

Are you suggesting that we should automatically in a de-select the writing aids 
for languages that don't get the UI installed? That might sounds sensible at 
first, but is actually rather naïve.

These scenarios are very common, I think:

1) People use the UI in English because localisation to their own language 
sounds just weird to them, or is downright buggy, but still want to edit 
documents written in their own language, and that language is one that has a 
dictionary included in the installer.

2) People use the UI in their own language but still want to edit documents in 
a foreign language they are learning, or use in their work, and that language 
is one that has a dictionary included in the installer. I would guess that this 
is a very common scenario.

I think what you are seeing is just people expecting nothing to change from how 
OpenOffice.org did it. But if nothing would change, what would be the point 
with LibreOffice?

To many people in the above scenarios it should be seen as a *useful feature* 
that they don't have to separately download writing aids for each language they 
want to write in. (Assuming that language is one of the ones that have bundled 
writing aids.) After all, in other cases people are complaining loudly that 
they have to do a separate download and install of local on-disk help. So in 
that case separate downloads/installers for additional functionality is bad, 
but in the dictionary case good?

--tml

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