From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Aug 03 2002 - 02:36:49 EDT
--- Gabriel Gerhardsson <mr.g@home.se> wrote: > Hi
>
> On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 15:58, Christian Biesinger
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > suggestion for dict. downloader:
> > Do not display a seperate dialog for each of the
> languages in the
> > document. Especially annoying on World.abw :)
> instead, display a single
> > dialog listing all of the languages in the
> document.
> > The problem with this might be that a user might
> want to download a
> > dictionary only for some of the languages...
>
> How useful is this, really?
> How often do you run into a new language, for which
> you need a new
> dictionary?
> I can clearly see the benefit of such a feature, but
> isn't it a bit
> overkill?
> I'm just trying to be conservative on the usage of
> development-time.
It would be extremely useful when doing any testing
of our multilingual test document:
http://www.abisource.com/lxr/source/abi/test/wp/World.abw?raw=1
Also probably for European users who use more than one
non-English languge that are not included in their
installer. Although this is probably not very
annoying for them.
Andrew.
> > 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)
> My spare time will be very limited in the coming
> month. So if anyone
> else want to work on it, go ahead.
>
> Take care
> /Gabriel
>
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