Hi, > > > > So we will have hunspell-en in the livecd, but what if someone > > > > changes the > > > > UI or input language (this is a good reason for dictionaries > > > > to be > > > > a > > > > special case, you need them when you add input language, not > > > > UI > > > > language) > > > > they won't get the related dictionary. Could we get the control > > > > panel > > > > install the relevant dictionary using PackageKit when you add a > > > > keyboard > > > > layout? eg. if I add Arabic it should install hunspell-ar so I > > > > would > > > > have > > > > spellcheck when typing in Arabic. > > > > This will make using Fedora (and GNOME in general) easier for > > > > multilingual > > > > beginner users. > > > Totally agree that's a good idea. I filed this: > > > > > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681084 > > Two other loftier thoughts: > > > > 1) maybe spell checking dictionaries should get install "just in > > time" > > when the library is used, > > just like fonts get install when they're displayed. > > > How would you detect which language of spellcheck dict you need to > install > for European languages, which basically share the same alphabet? Well I guess there's a few ways you could approach it: - let the user pick the language (i think a lot of our apps have menu items or a language selection in the spell check dialog already) - guess from current locale / current input method - do some bad heuristic like translate.google.com does Would take work I'm probably not going to do to get this feature, so I'm mainly just brainstorming, fwiw. > Some phones have builtin dictionaries. Using the internet means: > 1) won't work for offline/LAN only machines Could mitigate (but not elliminate) this problem with caching > 2) privacy concerns yea definitely an issue > 3) spellcheck might be really slow for users with very slow internet > connection, for example Africa or India > 4) we'll have to host it I don't think these two are a given, but certainly potentially true. Anyway, just throwing ideas out there as food for thought. --Ray -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
