338074 - SpellCheck dictionaries should have their own place in the Add-ons manager

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 591780

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

If spellchecking is to be a big deal for 2.0 ... and/or later, there should be some UI where to add / remove the dictionaries. (rightclick contextmenu is not that great)

(similar to Bug 335781)

Comment 1

[Ryan Jones-Ward [:sciguyryan]]

*** Bug 340836 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

If they are packaged as extensions they will just be listed with extensions. If ui is needed to support dictionaries that aren't packaged as an extension this will probably entail doing something similar to the pref panels and allowing app's define additional panes along with the code to manage the pane, etc.

Comment 3

[Ryan Jones-Ward [:sciguyryan]]

*** Bug 347139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Ben]

In FF2.0 RC2 the dictionaries are listed in the add-ons manager as extensions. This is workable, but it would be better if the dictionaries have a separate "tab" in the add-ons manager.

Comment 5

[u88484]

They do now in current trunk build and will in the Firefox 3.0 release. Resolving WFM

Comment 6

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

reopening - dictionaries that are not managed by the EM are not displayed.

Comment 7

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

--> toolkit::add ons manager

Not blocking, but Mossop might have some ideas in the general EM API reworking. He might also have some guidance here in case someone else wants to pick this up.

Comment 9

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Spelling dictionaries are (at the moment) regarded as just plain extensions, aren't they? Setting severity to "enhancement".

I don't expect this, if fixed someday, to be ported to the 1.9.2-and-earlier addons manager: setting Version to Trunk.

Not sure whether this is wanted, Future, or WONTFIX.

Comment 10

[heraldo]

IMO dictionaries should not be in the add-ons manager at all, but rather together with downloadable UI languages in Prefs > Content > Languages

Comment 11

[Jo Hermans]

Eh no. A language is not the same as a dictionary. You can have multiple dictionaries for a single language. And it's perfectly ok to use let's say a French dictionary in an English text, if you want to spell check an single paragraph or even a word. Plus, the whole point of the add-ons manager is to manage downloadable items. Dictionaries are downloadable, languages are not.

Comment 12

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to comment #11)
> Eh no. A language is not the same as a dictionary. You can have multiple
> dictionaries for a single language. And it's perfectly ok to use let's say a
> French dictionary in an English text, if you want to spell check an single
> paragraph or even a word. Plus, the whole point of the add-ons manager is to
> manage downloadable items. Dictionaries are downloadable, languages are not.

Languages are downloadable as *.langpack.xpi addons all over the place at ftp.mozilla.org, and they appear in the "Language" tab of the addons manager. Like (heavyweight) themes, any number can be installed but only one can be enabled at a time. A language pack modifies the texts of the chrome and of the messages originating in the application, a theme modifies the buttons, colours, etc., even the fonts, let's say anything in the chrome that is not the text of the labels. Dictionaries modify the behaviour of the application when you type something in it (in the *content* of a page, mostly), and any number can be enabled at a time. Like you say, they are just one particular kind of extension.

To remove a dictionary, select it in the addons manager, click "Remove" and restart.

To add a dictionary, go to addons.mozilla.org, select "Dictionaries and La

Comment 13

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

...nguage Packs" in the sidebar, and click the one you want to install it just like any other extension.