Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: dictionaries-common
In almost every application which can check spelling (FF, Pidgin, gedit) I get
several variants of English language - US, UK, AU, CA - 5 in total.
It seems logical to me that 99% of Ubuntu installations have English language
(and dictionaries) installed, and 99% of users never use more then 1 English
variant (and many people do not really know what the difference is). So there
are 5 options in spell check menu which just confuse users and are never used.
This seems to be not user friendly at all.
Currently it even seems impossible to manually remove packages with language
variants one doesn't use since language-support-en and
language-support-writing-en depend on them.
It would be expected that user could select language variants he wants to use
and then only these variants get displayed all over the system.
I'll really appreciate if this could be solved and Ubuntu UI could be made more
friendly to people.
I'll be happy to provide any additional information.
Thanks!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: myspell-en-gb 1:3.3.0-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 12 19:41:01 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=ru_RU:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org-dictionaries
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (43 days ago)
** Affects: dictionaries-common (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty
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