Re: [libreoffice-l10n] [PROPOSAL] New project for dictionaries

I think the different licenses across products might be a problem. But 
not an expert.

On the whole, I'm not sure if the packaging is actually the biggest 
stumbling block for the end user but the actual 
installation/implementation. Some are very easy, like Mozilla or LO, you 
just get the file and it either auto-installs or you click it. Others, 
like Trados, you have to find the folder for the dic file, you have to 
manually add (if it's not bundled) the locale to an XML file ... and 
pray it works. Others, like Chrome, you can't actually add a 
spellchecker for a language that Google hates.

Though perhaps if there was a central place on the web for all these so 
there's a single place where devs could point their software for 
grabbing Hunspell dictionaries that might make things easier. I'd be all 
up for that but it would probably end up an exercise in herding cats. 
Maybe forking existing dictionaries might be worth considering, if the 
owners are either non-communicative or not interested?

Michael

Sgrìobh Dennis Roczek na leanas 25/04/2016 aig 11:13:
> The manual work of packaging the extension is very time consuming and
> moreover leads to situations that there might be multiple maintained
> versions for the same language. By providing tools to create a new
> version of the dictionary the maintainer can invest their time in
> improving the dictionary and release easily more often a new version.
>
> I'm eager to hear what do you thing about this idea.


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