Bug 68576

Summary:	Pre-installed User-defined Dictionaries Can't be neither Modified nor Deleted
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Harald Koester <harald.koester>
Component:	Linguistic	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	rpr.nospam
Version:	4.1.0.4 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	BSA
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Harald Koester 2013-08-26 14:31:29 UTC

Problem description:
During installation some user-defined dictionaries are installed. In a parallel installation with all installed dictionaries these user-defined dictionaries are affected: en-GB [English (UK), en-US [English (USA)], sl [Slovenian], technical [All]. Generally I expect that a user-defined dictionary can be deleted and modified. Otherwise it is not user-defined. This does not work with the mentioned dictionaries.

Steps to reproduce:
[1] Display the user-defined dictionaries with: Tools > Options... > Language Settings > Writing Aids.
[2] Select one of the mentioned dictionaries. It can't be deleted by clicking “Delete”. The button is greyed. Expected: Deletion of user-defined dictionary possible.
[3] Select one of the mentioned dictionaries and Click “Edit...”. An edit dialogue opens.
[4] Select a word and try to delete it. This is not possible. The button “Delete” is greyed. Expected: Deletion possible.
[5] Type in a new word into the field “Word”.
[6] Try to insert this word into the dictionary. This is not possible. The button “New” is greyed. Expected: Insertion possible.

I wonder if it makes sense to install these dictionaries as user-defined dictionaries. I think it's better to install them as part of the general language dictionaries, so that they don't appear in the options dialogue.

Some words according to the “IgnoreAllList” dictionary: It took me some time to understand this 'dictionary'. Its main characteristic is that it is temporarily, it is always deleted when you close LibreOffice. So it's not really a dictionary. In order to emphasize this characteristic I propose to change the name of this 'dictionary' to “Temporary Word List” or something similar. Furthermore it should be possible to localize this name.

Operating System: Windows 7
Version: 4.1.0.4 release

Comment 1 Harald Koester 2013-11-07 11:12:27 UTC

The main target of this report is the problem with dictionaries which can't be modified or deleted. Hence summary renamed again.

Comment 2 rpr 2014-05-31 10:45:20 UTC

I also see this issue in LibreOffice 4.2.4.2.

The pre-installed "user-defined" dictionaries (or wordbooks) can be found in the
following directory: <LO_install_dir>/share/wordbook/ as *.dic files.

On Windows I get four pre-installed dictionaries: en-GB.dic, en-US.dic, sl.dic, technical.dic, with dictionaries for all languages selected in the installation wizard during installation.

On Linux (e.g. Debian and Linux Mint) I see only technical.dic although language support for both en-US and en-GB has been installed.

The pre-installed wordbooks can't be modified or deleted by standard users as they are not allowed to change or delete installed program files.

I'd suggest that the pre-installed dictionaries have some additional mark in the User-defined dictionaries list so that they are distinguished from real user-defined dictionaries.

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