Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 10:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Thomas Cameron wrote: >> >>> On 08/02/2009 02:06 PM, Beartooth wrote: >>> >>> >>>> They make it incredibly tedious to get rid of all their miserable >>>> language-pack cruft -- and the minute you turn your back, they shove it >>>> all in again. >>>> >>>> Is there a way to prevent / disable that abominable practice? >>>> >>>> Or has the time come to admit that the blasted browser is not >>>> worth the trouble it takes? >>>> >>>> Is there a reasonably similar one without this disgusting >>>> practice? Seamonkey, maybe? >>>> >>>> >>> Not minimizing your pain, but I don't understand the problem. The >>> language packs are pretty small - all told they come out to about 17MB >>> on my system. Even if you don't use them, then that's not a lot of disk >>> space or network transfer volume. If you ever do need them, they're >>> pretty nice to have. >>> >>> >>> >> I agree 100% and have added my comment to bugzilla. >> > > If there's no downside to having them, why is there a dialogue for > disabling them? If the dialogue is required, a) why is it so damn stupid > and b) why aren't the settings preserved across updates, as they are for > every other configuration option Firefox has? There's really no excuse > for this. > Then is that the "real" bug/problem. Why not file a bugzilla that addresses "language pack settings not preserved across updates"? I still can't figure out any benefit to disable them....but seems some have determined it has value. Wonder what it is... > >> I can easily see any cure for this "illness" being much worse in the >> long run. >> > > Just replacing the large number of buttons (which are all on by default) > with checkboxes would go a long way to making this a non-issue, > especially if the state were preserved across versions. Even a button > for "turn off all additional languages" would do it. This is User > Interfaces 101. > > Maybe the best thing to do would be have all the language packs in there to make distribution easy but hide them from people..... :-) -- There appears to be irrefutable evidence that the mere fact of overcrowding induces violence. -- Harvey Wheeler Mei-Mei.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=cCSz_koUhSg
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