Firefox language packs

[Christopher Aillon]

On 04/20/2008 04:33 PM, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Peter Lemenkov wrote:
>> 2008/4/20, Mark Bidewell <mark.bidewell at alumni.clemson.edu>:
>>> Firefox supports many languages (good)  However all language packs are
>>> install by default (not so good).  While I can uninstall the uneeded 
>>> packs
>>> by hand it would be nice if they could be broken out as separate RPMs 
>>> like
>>> for koffice or openoffice.  Is this possible?
>>
>> Already discussed with zero results :(
>> BTW OpenOffice.org packaged using separate langpacks...
> 
> Personally, I'd like to see them lumped together in the addons listing 
> as well so its not spammed with language packs... I don't mind them 
> being installed on my system but having a single addon listed with some 
> preference pane or information dialog that says what languages are there 
> would be much nicer.

And I'd like to see people point out what problems are so they can be 
addressed properly instead of making hacks around them.  For example, a 
much better solution is implemented in Firefox 3 versions to avoid 
clutter like this.

See http://caillon.fedorapeople.org/ffext.png and 
http://caillon.fedorapeople.org/fflang.png