Selection of dictionaries per installation

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 08/30/2012 01:16 PM, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> However, on Windows, the base installation set contains all available
> localizations and all available dictionaries.  During msi installation,
> some code apparently determines a default selection of only a subset of
> the "Additional user interface languages" entries (presumably based on
> the current system locale settings), but all of the available "Optional
> Components - Dictionaries" entries are selected by default.  This now
> causes per-user generation of data about all those bundled dictionary
> extensions at per-user first-start of LO, leading to noticeable time and
> space requirements (see
> <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53009> "Large
> UserInstallation's user/extensions/bundled/ tree").
>
> Hence, one suggestion to address that problem would be to reduce the
> amount of "Optional Components - Dictionaries" entries selected by
> default during Windows msi installation, similar to how a certain
> combination of base installation set plus langpack(s) on the other
> platforms also only installs a subset of all the available dictionaries.
>   (That is, the code that apparently now determines a default selection
> of "Additional user interface languages" entries would need to be
> extended to also determine a default selection of "related" "Optional
> Components - Dictionaries" entries.)

Implemented now as 
<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=e2fac98819c00b4fb50f9de9d0f32d20092f3191>
"fdo#53009: For msi installer, only default-select a subset of 
dictionaries."

Stephan