Feature Request: Consider offering a GUI for enabling / managing extra language locales (for dictionaries, spellchecking, etc.)

[nekohayo]

• [x] My proposal does not exist in the PLANNED & NOT PLANNED.md document
• [x] I have not found any other opened issues on the same feature request
• [x] I believe this fits within Warehouse's scope of Flatpak management

Describe the feature idea in detail

When using flatpaked document creation applications such as LibreOffice or any text editor (such as Apostrophe, Setzer, etc.), or even chat or social media clients like Fractal or Tuba, you may want to have extra spellchecking & dictionaries for multiple languages at once, not just the currently used system session locale.

The thing is, in many countries, there is more than one official language. Someone may have their system set to a particular language while their creative work is in other languages.

Currently, enabling support for these things requires searching the Internet for some obscure tutorials like this one, and issuing obscure terminal commands like:

flatpak config languages --set "en;de;fr"
sudo flatpak update

(I don't even know if this works for both the "system" and "user" version of flatpak)

It would probably make sense for Warehouse to provide a filter-searchable list of locales that you can toggle on and off?

[heliguy4599]

I just noticed your post on fedi about this issue, and it's something I'll totally look into adding into 2.X. It's a great idea