From: Gabriel Gerhardsson (gabrielg@home.se)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 15:18:35 EST
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 20:55, Martin Sevior wrote:
> On 27 Jan 2003, Marc Maurer wrote:
>
> > > I don't know what the "user" community thinks of this feature and
> > > its benefits and therefore I leave it to better heads to determine if it
> > > belongs in AbiWord sources and to maintain it.
> >
> > I've seen quite a lot of users happy with this feature on Forums. I
> > haven't seens a single complaint, and that in a time were trolls
> > propulate the boards.
> >
> > Besides that, I think it's a really nice feature to have. If anyone
> > wants to bitch against it, let them build Abi without the downloader or
> > fork Abi and remove the whole thing.
> >
>
> I agree with Marc. I used it and liked it. However the issue of what to do
> if/when sourceforge goes out of business and we have that website compiled
> into the code, needs to be addressed.
I'm glad that some people find it useful. But i'm sadly out of
motivation for developing it. :(
At least the current scheme includes a flag in the dictionary-list
(downloaded from abisource.com) that can be set to disable the feature.
With a dialog-box informing of this, the first time. After that it's
completely disabled. Also, the download hosts comes within the
dictionary-list (so we could for example change to download the
dictionaries from savannah if we like).
I tried to think ahead.
Take care
/Gabriel
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