Re: dictionary downloader suggstion

From: Gabriel Gerhardsson (mr.g@home.se)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 17:54:40 EDT

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    On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 23:02, Christian Biesinger wrote:
    > On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:50:38PM +0200, Gabriel Gerhardsson wrote:
    > > How useful is this, really?
    > > How often do you run into a new language, for which you need a new
    > > dictionary?
    >
    > hm... probably not that often...
    >
    > > I can clearly see the benefit of such a feature, but isn't it a bit
    > > overkill?
    >
    > maybe it is. it just comes to my mind everytime I open World.abw on a
    > system w/o the dictionaries :)

    =) That is quite an extreme document. And the downloading only has to be
    done once.

    > or other suggestion: [ ] Always download the dictionary
    > what about this? ([ ] should indicate a checkbox if it isn't obvious :) )

    Yeah, that's a natural and easy to do feature. To begin with it can be
    done as a pref. Very easy.

    > > > Also, somewhat related, do not display a seperate dialog for each of the
    > > > languages without a dictionary. Display a single dialog. The user can only
    > > > click OK anyway, so there should be no problem with this.
    > >
    > > This is, IMHO, a more useful feature. And a lot easier to implement.
    > > (It's not as easy as it may seem tho)
    >
    > Yeah, this one would be even more useful, I agree. So if you would have
    > time for it... (or someone else, for that matter)

    As I said, my spare time will be very limited... :(

    Take care
    /Gabriel



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