Re: [Libreoffice] MS-Windows : about dictionaries installation

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

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