[Mageia-dev] Idea to fix "Way too many languages to choose from for spell checking in FF and TB" mga#6125

Wed Jun 27 19:50:04 CEST 2012

On 27/06/2012 19:13, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote:
+>
+> Le 27 juin 2012 08:16, "Marja van Waes" <marja11 at xs4all.nl
+> <mailto:marja11 at xs4all.nl>> a écrit :
+>  >
+>  > On 27/06/2012 01:38, n54 at gmx.com <mailto:n54 at gmx.com> wrote:
+>  >>
+>  >> Hello!
+>  >>
+>  >> I have got an idea to fix this bug with a new drak tool (DrakSpell?). It
+>  >> would be an assistant with a list of all available languages with all
+>  >> their variants to select and install. And the trick: it will install a
+>  >> package (like hunspell-en) and remove (rm -f) the unselected dicts
+>  >> (en_CA, en_GB ...).
+>  >>
+>  >> This seems to be against rules.. but would be a solution. And this seems
+>  >> to be much better than producing (and maintaining!) 1000 packages with
+>  >> single dicts.
+>  >>
+>  >> What do you think?
+>  >
+>  >
+>  >
+>  > Sounds great, I'm willing to test :)
+>  >
+>  > As a workaround for now, can we just remove all
+>  >
+>  > /usr/share/hunspell/*.aff
+>  > /usr/share/hunspell/*.dic
+>  >
+>  > except for the ones we want to keep?
+>
+> I would like to delete these disctionnaries but i do nt know how, i have
+> 16 varietés of english and i found only a couple of files for english. I
+> think en and en_ca , i am not 100% sure because i am not at home now.
+> However, if there is a solution to delete manualy the dictionnaries , it
+> is fine for me.
+>
+
+Firefox seems to get all the languages it sees from /usr/share/hunspell/
+
+It is mostly links in that folder, the ones I had for English are shown 
+below. I just removed a lot of such links, and after restarting Firefox, 
+my list of languages to choose from was much shorter. All the removed 
+ones have disappeared. I haven't restarted Thunderbird yet, so I don't 
+know whether the effect will be the same there
+
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_AG.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_AG.dic -> en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_AU.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_AU.dic -> en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_BS.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_BS.dic -> en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_BW.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_BW.dic -> en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_BZ.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_BZ.dic -> en_GB.dic
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    3115 mars  20 02:30 en_CA.aff
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  535896 mars  20 02:30 en_CA.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_DK.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_DK.dic -> en_GB.dic
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   27471 mars  20 02:29 en_GB.aff
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  527336 mars  20 02:29 en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_GH.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_GH.dic -> en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_HK.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_HK.dic -> en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_IE.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_IE.dic -> en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_IN.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_IN.dic -> en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_JM.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_JM.dic -> en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_NA.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_NA.dic -> en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_NG.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_NG.dic -> en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_NZ.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_NZ.dic -> en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_PH.aff -> en_US.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_PH.dic -> en_US.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_SG.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_SG.dic -> en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_TT.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_TT.dic -> en_GB.dic
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    3115 mars  20 02:30 en_US.aff
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  534077 mars  20 02:30 en_US.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_ZA.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_ZA.dic -> en_GB.dic
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_ZW.aff -> en_GB.aff
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 mai   23 17:50 en_ZW.dic -> en_GB.dic
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