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Looking for advice on multiple language spell service installation


From: Wolfgang Lux
Subject: Looking for advice on multiple language spell service installation
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:32:27 +0100

After committing a set of changes that extend GNUstep's spell server to support multiple languages, I'm looking for advice on how GSspell should properly announce its service.

By default, users will see only the dictionary for AmericanEnglish in the Spelling panel. To make dictionaries available for other languages supported by aspell, users (or rather an administrator) must change the NSLanguages key in GSspell.service's Info- gnustep.plist. Apparently, this is not really a workable solution, in particular since the change would have to be repeated whenever -gui is reinstalled.

The current state could be improved in two ways:
1) Have GSspell.service update its own Info-gnustep.plist to match the list of aspell's available dictionaries if it is run with a special command line flag. 2) Create a GSspellService.plist file in the user's Services directory and have it announce the additional languages besides AmericanEnglish.

Of course the first solution still requires administrator privileges, but I think this could be acceptable if GSspell.service is automatically run with the appropriate flag in a post installation phase. However, I'm not sure whether this works well for package installation, so I'd appreciate if any package maintainer who is on this list could comment on this.

Unfortunately, neither of the two approaches works at present in GNUstep. The first approach fails because GSspell.service is unable to locate its own info dictionary [1]. The second fails because the spell checker would attempt to start an executable in the user's Services directory for the additional languages, even when I explicitly set the executable path in GSspellService.plist.

Before starting to work on either implementation, I'd appreciate to receive comments on which solution you consider better. Or maybe I have been overlooking something completely obvious.

Wolfgang

[1] NSBundle currently uses a special case to locate the Info.plist file in application bundles and restricts this case to a few well known extensions. Of course, I could easily extend this list to the .service extension, but this feels just like a stop gap measure.




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