Specification Status | |
Author | Christian Lohmaier (cloph), Eric Bachard (ericb), feel free to add yourself.. |
Previous Change | Initial version from Christian Lohmaier |
Last Change | Added Language packs use in OpenOffice.org Installation Context Ericb 11:34, 31 December 2007 (CET) |
Status | Preliminary Help |
Abstract
Dec 31, 2007 The languagepack is provided as a mountable disk image (dmg). The user opens/mounts the image by double-clicking it after downloading. Within the dmg, the user will find two folders with the readme and license and an installation program. Start quickly with the most recent versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote and OneDrive —combining the familiarity of Office and the unique Mac features you love. Work online or offline, on your own or with others in real time—whatever works for what you’re doing. Annwyl bawb/Hello all, I have recently upgraded to Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac. I am trying to look for the Welsh language pack to install for it, like I can on my Windows computer as most of the documents I create are written in the medium of Welsh, but I am unable to find this.
Languagepacks offer a convenient way to install additional languages to a base-installation of OpenOffice.org
- Download libreoffice language pack mac for free. Productivity downloads - LibreOffice Language Pack by libreoffice and many more programs are available for instant and free download.
- Get Office apps for Mac Start quickly with the most recent versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote and OneDrive —combining the familiarity of Office and the unique Mac features you love.
The main benefits are:
- small download size
- easy installation of multiple languages
- 1Languagepack installsets for Mac OS X
- 1.5Detailed Specification
- 1.10Future Considerations
References
Reference Document | Check | Location (URL) |
Specification Process Entry Check | [passed/failed] | n/a |
Product Requirement, RFE, Issue ID (required) | [available] | issue 64937 |
Product Concept Document | [not available] | doesn't apply |
Test case specification (required) | [not available] | see this document |
IDL Specification | [not available] | doesn't apply |
Software Specification Rules | n/a | n/a |
Contacts
Role | Name | E-Mail Address |
Developer | Christian Lohmaier | <[email protected]> |
Quality Assurance | Raphael Bircher | <[email protected]> |
Documentation | <First Name, Last Name> | <[email protected]> |
User Experience | <First Name, Last Name> | <[email protected]> |
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Acronym / Abbreviation | Definition |
<WYSIWYG> | <What You See Is What You Get> |
Detailed Specification
The languagepack is provided as a mountable disk image (dmg). The user opens/mounts the image by double-clicking it after downloading.Within the dmg, the user will find two folders with the readme and license and an installation program.
Default Scenario
When the user launches the installer, he will be greeted with the following dialog (NOTE: Strings not final yet/open for discussion):
When the user doesn't abort the installation, he will be promted to choose on of the detected installations of OpenOffice.org:
When the user did pick one of the suggested versions (and the version really is an OOo install), then he will be informed that the installation is about to begin:
Keyshot 6 for mac.
Keyshot 6 for mac.
Once the installation is finished, the final dialog is displayed:
Special Cases
- The user doesn't choose one of the autodetected installations, but uses the option to select his/her own
In that case, Mac's default file-picker is shown, asking the user to select the correct app. (in the screenshots, the user did choose an invalid application)
- In case the user did choose an invalid application, one that could not be identified as being ans OpenOffice.org installation, the languagepack installation will be aborted with the following message:
- The user doesn't have the necessary privileges to write into the target directory. In that case he has the choice to identify as administrator or to abort the installation:
- If the user did choose to identify, a Mac's default authentication dialog is shown, asking for the user to provide an admin account's username and password:
- In case authentication fails, the installation is aborted:
- In case authentication fails, the installation is aborted:
Migration
There is no migration path. Installation on Mac OS X via 'manual install' (drag'n'drop) installer doesn't offer an uninstall or update method. You install OpenOffice.org by dragging a folder out of the installation image to your harddisk. And you uninstall OpenOffice.org by moving that folder to the trash. 'Updating' is performed by removing the old version and replacing it by the new version. (Mac OS X offers to replace the old version with the new one when the name is the same)
When the user installs a new version of OpenOffice.org, the user must manually (re-)install the languagepack again.
A given languagepack is likely to work across several different minor versions of the base installation (however, installing a languagepack of a different version is not guaranteed to work).Whether it works or not depends on the amount of changes within the office/the localisations, and is not related to the languagepack installation discussed in this specification.
Configuration
Irrelevant - the installsets don't touch the office itself, the configuration & dialogs to choose a specific language are already part of OpenOffice.org
File Format
Irrelevant - the installsets don't touch the Office itself, the support to handle languagepacks is already part of OpenOffice.org
Open Issues
None known
Future Considerations
These comments below apply to a full revamp of the installation process on Mac OSX, it is out-of-scope of this specification. It is listed here for reference only.
Multi-Language OpenOffice.org installation sets
-> As Apple people explained us during WWDC (Philipp Lohmann can confirm), what is expected is
A) Download a big archive containing 5 to 7 major locales. ( say 230 MB max , approximatively)
Note: this is unclear, but .dpkg archive has my preference for the complete archive, who can contain a .dmg to be droped in the correct install dir
B) Install Process
C) The result :
OpenOffice.org at launch, will use the correct locale, since the locale is checked at launch (in sal, exacty in osxlocale.cxx )
If the user wants to install another locale afterward -> your language packs are perfect and already functional.
Ericb 11:26, 31 December 2007 (CET)
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Alex Kemp
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Hi
Language Pack For Mac Os 10.10
the installation instruction on https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/.. needs a bit of love and care.
This next part seems incorrect. Or, at least it is unclear to me:
'If needed, you may now download and install the language pack(s) of your choice and built-in help by downloading the .DMG file of your choice. The installation steps are the same than the ones described above but you must have downloaded the main LibreOffice DMG file at first.'
Language Pack For Mac Office
Dragging the language pack into the applications folder does not result in a new interface language, and neither does this result in an extra option in the 'preferences/language' menu.
Disclaimer: no Mac head here.
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