Comment 15 for bug 409764

I think the major point of complaints has been by those using regular Ubuntu but wanting to get rid of particular package, not by those using Lubuntu or such which doesn't come with OpenOffice.org et al. installed. Recommends would solve that without causing regressions. I agree that there is also the group of people needing more minimal installations out-of-the-box, but they are not the majority of Ubuntu users which use the major flavors.

My guesstimate based on previous experiences is that having to click a notification will be missed by ca. 50% of ordinary Ubuntu users. 5% of those 50% will come to Ubuntu Finland's forums and get the info how to get spellcheck working. The rest will either accept that "ok, Ubuntu does not have Finnish spellchecking" or complain around how Ubuntu is not that good for average user. I don't want to exaggerate, but something like this it seems to always go when everything is not done automatically for the user. The notifications nowadays are a bit better than the light bulb in the old days, but they still don't last that long, are only shown once (, are often without translations) etc.

(btw, I cannot test any language-selector functionality currently either because it crashes on launch, bug/trace #427716)