Description: I use LibreOffice in UK English with an option to use USA English. However, the extensions include default Spanish and French spelling dictionaries that can not be removed. On my setup, the Spanish and French spelling dictionaries do not appear to have any function whatsoever. Why are they included as default spelling dictionaries and why are they not removable? Is this buggy? Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click on the relevant tabs and look at the extensions. 2. French and Spanish spelling dictionaries are included in a UK or USA setup. 3. There is no option to delete the unwanted dictionaries. Actual Results: As above. Expected Results: I do not expect to find unwanted spelling dictionaries included. I would expect to be able to delete (or uninstall) unwanted dictionaries. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: As above.
I confrm, that you can't delete thse extensions in extion-dialog (Tools -> Extensions). But that is the expected behaviour. Help says: "Bundled extensions are installed by the system administrator using the operating system specific installer packages. These can not be installed, updated or removed here." [1] So it's not a bug, but enhancement request like "Allow removing bundled extensions" cc: Design-Team [1] https://help.libreoffice.org/24.2/en-GB/text/shared/01/packagemanager.html?System=WIN&DbPAR=WRITER&HID=desktop/ui/extensionmanager/dialog-action_area1#@@nowidget@@
Seems to be a FAQ: Bug 136010 - Cannot disable extensions installed by package manager (=> NAB) Bug 33060 - Bundled extensions can not be disabled (=> WF) Bug 55364 - Bundled Extensions create huge amount of files in appdata (=> WFM) Bug 53009 - Large UserInstallation's user/extensions/bundled/ tree (=> FIXED) Bug 32377 - *NO* Bundled Extensions, please Stephan did a lot work around this topic. He argued in bug 33060 comment 19 "...obvious use case for bundled (and/or shared) extensions is to let an admin install an extension that enforces some feature", and for dictionaries "The original rationale for that was that these could have different update cycles than LO...". I support the request however. The admin who wants to protect extensions is one use case but there is also the average user who should have full control over the application.
The original subject of this issue was "French and Spanish spelling dictionaries are default extensions that can not be removed in a UK English LibreOffice set up." It was generalized to "Allow removing bundled extensions" on 2024-05-26. I'm not sure whether that was helpful. I would still argue that we should leave the treatment of bundled extensions alone, as I did back in bug 33060 comment 19. For the specific case of installed-but-unwanted dictionaries (and allow me to add: in case that even is an issue of practical concern), we could maybe make them optional to install in the first place, by making the selection of to-be-installed components more fine grained than it currently is? But that dictionaries are implemented as bundled extensions is something I would consider more as an implementation detail than as a design decision to make them deinstallable post installation, and I would not extrapolate from "certain dictionaries are installed but unwanted" to "allow removing bundled extensions".
So let's keep the discussion at dictionaries. An installation option might be okay, though requires some effort and wont work in case of Linux distributions. Vena, I wonder where what OS/DE you run (is hardware = Windows correct?; all details are available for copy/paste in the About dialog) and where you got the installer from.