On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:08:49AM -0000, Jonathan Ernst wrote: > Patching each language individually and maintaining an extra list of > words for each of them is certainly not the proper way to add those > words to dictionaries IMHO (i.e. extrawords.txt should affect every > dictionary)...
Of course you're welcome to improve on the patch if you think it could be better, however since each language-specific dictionary is provided in a separate package, that'd be pretty hard. Besides, really you want extrawords.txt to be done specific for each language since some languages use non-latin letter forms, and most will want to translate the non-trademark terms. > I don't care too much about this bug Evidently you care enough to comment on it. ;-) > and just thought it was unfair to > cater only to English speaking users, Ubuntu philosophy stating "that > software tools should be available to people in their local language" > other users should not be considered second class citizens (even if this > bug is trivial). Dude, that's like the most ungracious response to fixing a bug I think I've ever read. Instead of taking offense that the bug was fixed for some language other than yours, you need to recognize that the hardest part - setting up an infrastructure for patching in wordlists to two different dictionary formats - has been sorted out. The remaining work is mere cut-and-paste to get it to additional dictionaries as desired. If you don't know how to copy-and-paste and or debdiffs, and don't have time to learn, criticising people for fixing bugs and pontificating about Ubuntu philosophy to the rest of us is not the right approach. > Talk is cheap and I don't have code to show so I shall remain silent now > ;-) Oops, you were too late! -- Spellcheck in Gaim, Evolution, gedit etc doesn't recognize "Ubuntu" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/15200 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
