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

Wed Jun 27 20:11:18 CEST 2012

On 27/06/2012 19:50, Marja van Waes wrote:
+> On 27/06/2012 19:13, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote:
+
+>>
+>> 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
+
+> 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
+
+The effect is the same in TB: after removing all links in that folder 
+and after restarting Thunderbird, I have only 13 languages instead of 
+176 "languages" to choose from.
+
+I'm happy :-D
+
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