Please remove clutter-creating soft links to same spanish dictionary

[Carlos Moffat]

Hi,

myspell-es creates a bunch of softlinks under /usr/share/hunspell for spanish dictionaries for latin american countries. This only creates, in my opinion, two problems:

1) It misleads the user into thinking that these dictionaries are actually distinct, say, as the UK and the US english ones. They are obviously the same.

2) It creates a lot of visual clutter in the applications that use them. When I open the spelling language chooser in Thunderbird, for example, the list of meaningless choices fills the screen, and it actually makes hard to find the choice I care about (mostly just switching between english-us and spanish-they-are-all-the-same).

Please consider this a minor/wishlist bug, with the suggested option of:

1) Removing all es_++ options but one.
2) Choosing that one for the user (easier, say es_ES ) or giving the user the option of using whatever suffix they want for their country, but let's be straight with them and let them now this is vanilla dictionary.

Gracias.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: myspell-es 1.11-2
Uname: Linux 3.2.2-030202-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 5 18:19:34 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110211.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: espa-nol
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-18 (110 days ago)

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Carlos,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with the spanish language package and Thunderbird.

You made this bug report in 2012 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and Thunderbird since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
Or, if it is still a problem, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect 927256

and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.

G

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