Re: [tdf-discuss] Co-working with Moz, etc

Jaime i only said Thunderbird cuz that's the client i use. there are 
tons of others.

Todd i totally agree a standard needs to be reached. like there is the 
ODF format a standardized dictionary format would be a great idea.

On 1/2/11 3:54 AM, todd rme wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Jaime R. Garza<garzaj@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > But why only for Thunderbird?
> >
> > Why not make an open container (or just modularize the existing one with a
> > well defined interface) to will allow any application to use the resources
> > (e.g. dictionaries) and have full integration with all LO resources?
> Isn't this what freedesktop.org standards are for?  A standard for
> spell checking libraries (I mean the library of words, not the
> software library) shared across all open-source programs would be very
> useful.  Such a thing has already been proposed:
>
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-language-checking-spec
>
> So rather than trying to get other groups to write wrappers to
> integrate with libo's own spelling dictionary, I think it would be
> much better if there was a single, standard dictionary format that all
> open-source programs shared.  Any program that implements the standard
> will automatically get support for the same dictionaries.  This avoids
> each program needing to write compatibility layers for every other
> program.
>
> So I think putting some effort into getting this standard ironed out
> would be very beneficial to a lot of projects.


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