Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-02-02 Thread plino
Jesús, obviously a CD/DVD installer should include everything. This is a suggestion for a downloadable installer where size matters :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/MS-Windows-about-dictionaries-installation-tp2382566p2404670.html Sent from the Dev mailin

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-02-02 Thread Wols Lists
On 02/02/11 11:22, Jesús Corrius wrote: >> Finally the cherry on the top of the cake: in addition to the included >> > dictionaries (English is included as default but others can probably be >> > added) you have an option to download other dictionaries during >> > installation >> > (although you

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-02-02 Thread Jesús Corrius
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:10 PM, plino wrote: > > If I may contribute with my 2cents why not use the best ideas already on the > field? > > The perfect installer IMHO should start with a simple box to select the > language used by the installer itself (where the detected locale is > suggested) > >

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-02-02 Thread plino
If I may contribute with my 2cents why not use the best ideas already on the field? The perfect installer IMHO should start with a simple box to select the language used by the installer itself (where the detected locale is suggested) An example is the first screen for the FLOSS Abiword http://w

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-02-02 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> That is a reason why I suggest to leave the user make its own choice > among the available dictionaries (only one, all, whatever he want). Which is exactly what the user can do in a "custom" installation. > So I restate one of my questions : what is the tool used to code the > installer ? A bu

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-02-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 02/02/2011 10:53, Wols Lists a écrit : > On 01/02/11 22:15, Tor Lillqvist wrote: >> I am sure some people could be annoyed also by being reminded that there are >> languages spoken in their country that they perhaps consider leftovers from >> invaders and not real language of their country. Or

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-02-02 Thread Wols Lists
On 01/02/11 22:15, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > I am sure some people could be annoyed also by being reminded that there are > languages spoken in their country that they perhaps consider leftovers from > invaders and not real language of their country. Or the other way around, > people feeling they b

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-02-01 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> British English? What's that? THERE'S NO SUCH THING! > English is spoken [...] speak Scots [...] speaks Gaelic [...] speak Welsh. I was not talking about spoken language. It will take a few years before LibreOffice can be used for dictionary checking of spoken language. Your message perfectl

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-02-01 Thread Wols Lists
On 01/02/11 09:51, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > And do we *really* want to imply than American English is needed by everyone? > Why not British English? Shouldn't we here in Europe at least be writing in > British English? British English? What's that? THERE'S NO SUCH THING! I'm a brit, and all this

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-02-01 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Tor Lillqvist wrote: >> In fact there is >> http://opengrok.go-oo.org/xref/components/setup_native/source/packinfo/spellchecker_selection.txt >> that can be used. > > I strongly oppose. > > That file makes exactly the kind of "political" choices that very many peopl

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-02-01 Thread David Tardon
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:47:38AM +, Michael Meeks wrote: > > Shouldn't be impossibly hard to add some simple filtering to that for > built-in / bundled extensions that would hide most of them from people > and default to not showing bundled extensions. > > I'll add an easy hack

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-02-01 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 02:51 -0700, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > But on the other hand, especially among the majority language (Finnish) > speakers > here some are very antagonistic to the minority language ... Should we try to add some flags into the mix to clarify the situation ? ;->

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-02-01 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> In fact there is > http://opengrok.go-oo.org/xref/components/setup_native/source/packinfo/spellchecker_selection.txt > > that can be used. I strongly oppose. That file makes exactly the kind of "political" choices that very many people will find at least odd, awkward, and at worst interpret

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-02-01 Thread Andras Timar
2011/2/1 Jean-Baptiste Faure : > Yes but instead of having the choice between "default installation" and > "custom installation", I suggest that the installer gives the alternative : > 1/ choose yourself the components and dictionaries you want to be installed >    in this case select by default on

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-01-31 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 31/01/2011 11:15, Michael Meeks a écrit : > Hi Jean, > > On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 13:55 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: >> No the problem is not there. It is in the long list of useless >> extensions / dictionaries in the Extensions Manager. >> Many users are afraid when they see this list. >

Re: [Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-01-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Michael Meeks wrote: > We can certainly fix this; primarily by not packing those dictionaries > as extensions I suspect. But not packaging dictionaries as extensions will bring LibreOffice back to the OOo 2.x times in this respect; it won't allow, for instance, that the user is easily (even automa

[Libreoffice] over-long extensions manager list ...

2011-01-31 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Jean, On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 13:55 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: > No the problem is not there. It is in the long list of useless > extensions / dictionaries in the Extensions Manager. > Many users are afraid when they see this list. Ah ! :-) so - this is something else. We