Comment 16 for bug 732768

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 732768] Re: ask.com is the only search provider

David Planella [2011-03-14 17:14 -0000]:
> Martin, or Chris, do you know where the localized search plugins
> extracted from the 10.10 language packs actually come from?

They were originally stored in some (now lost) data dir on macquarie.
I extracted them from all -base packages in Maverick and put them into
langpack-o-matic bzr now.

> Looking at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
> langpack/langpack-o-matic/main/files/head:/extra-files/searchplugins/,
> this only includes a handful of languages.

The other languages will fall back to en-US.

> How can new localized search plugins be added?

We just add them to extra-files/searchplugins/<locale>/.

> Do they originally come from the upstream xpis or somewhere else?

I'm not sure. I suppose they were created by Arne/Alex/Chris at some
point, though.

Martin

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