Le 30/01/2011 10:49, Tor Lillqvist a écrit : >> 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. Which software is used to do the MS-Windows installer ? > 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. Yes I agree. But the scenario where the user need only one or two dictionaries, is certainly far more common. > 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? Probably, but we need reassure the users who think to switch from OOo to LibO. > 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? Yes because installation of new dictionaries as extensions is, as far as can see on forums and lists, a well known procedure. Adding the fact that LibO migrate OOo profiles to LibO, the user who switch from OOo to LibO has already its own dictionaries.
Best regards. JBF -- Seuls des formats ouverts peuvent assurer la pérennité de vos documents. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice