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

[Marja van Waes]

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