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[Drew Kwashnak <dragonbite@xxxxxxxxx>]

I too think this a great idea, in part because it is so often overlooked.  I
never thought about it before but yes it is an annoyance that I never
thought there was a solution.

Drew

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Stuart Langridge <
stuart.langridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 15:03 +0000, Samuel Mehrbrodt wrote:
> > Are there any plans to have dictionary syncing? I think that would be
> > very useful for a lot of people, because it's always annoying to when
> > you add a word to a dictionary and then go to another computer, you have
> > to add it again. Then I install a new version of Ubuntu, of course I
> > forget to backup the dictionary.
> >
> > So that would be a really good feature.
> > I don't know which format the dictionary used by Ubuntu is and how
> > complicated it is to sync and merge it, maybe someone else can tell.
>
> I rather like this idea, but I am not sure that there is one and only
> one "user dictionary". I think that there might be a number of them.
>
> I've just established that the word "Ubuntero" is underlined as
> misspelled in Evolution, Firefox, and OpenOffice Writer. Adding that
> word to the dictionary in Evolution does not add it to the dictionaries
> in Firefox or OpenOffice Writer. So syncing the dictionary is hard,
> because there isn't only one dictionary to sync, which is rather
> annoying. If you can establish where all the dictionaries are, it
> wouldn't be too difficult to either explain how to sync them with Ubuntu
> One or (better) write a small program which handles that for you (and
> then perhaps we could look at bundling that program with Ubuntu One
> itself).
>
> sil
>
>
>
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