Spellchecking dictionaries in LyX 2.4 installer

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 10/30/20 4:11 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 04:05:23PM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> 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.
> I like that idea.

I suspect that would satisfy the skeptics. I'll make a patch later.

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