Spellchecking dictionaries in LyX 2.4 installer

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at lyx.org
Fri Oct 30 20:05:23 UTC 2020


On 10/30/20 4:04 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 10/30/20 3:49 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 03:26:31PM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>>> On 10/30/20 3:04 PM, José Abílio Matos wrote:
>>>> On Friday, October 30, 2020 6:59:45 PM WET Joel Kulesza wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Some didn't even think to ask the question of whether it was 
>>>>> available
>>>> but
>>>>
>>>>> once demonstrated there was an "oh wow" moment.  As such, I'd be in
>>>> favor
>>>>
>>>>> of exposing capability and letting someone then pursue how to make it
>>>> stop
>>>>
>>>>> rather than press on in ignorance of its existence.
>>>>> - Joel
>>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>> I wouldn't oppose this. It's probably easier to figure out how to 
>>> turn it
>>> off than to figure out that it's there at all. And you really only 
>>> have to
>>> do that once.
>> I support this idea as well, but we've already had this debate and 
>> there is considerable opposition. When there's opposition to this 
>> type of change, even if the majority support the change, usually we 
>> don't do it since the benefit of the doubt goes to the current 
>> default. We would need a strong majority to support the change and 
>> incur the cost of changing the default, and if I remember correctly I 
>> don't think a strong majority support the change.
>
> If there's still strong opposition, we don't have to do it, obviously. 
> But let's see. I think I was one of the strongly opposed back in the day.

PS It would be an option to add something to the preferences conversion 
routine that would keep this off, if it was not previously set to on. 
Then existing users (who are still using their same user directory) 
don't get bothered.

Riki




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