Bug 1294286

Summary:	evolution misleading spellcheck instructions to unavailable packages
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	g.p.dimitropoulos
Component:	evolution	Assignee:	Milan Crha <mcrha>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	22	CC:	lucilanga, mbarnes, mcrha, tpopela
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Description g.p.dimitropoulos 2015-12-26 12:54:09 UTC

Description of problem:
misleading help for spellchecking configuration

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 22, evolution 3.16.5

How reproducible:
Every time!




Ergo:





Steps to Reproduce:
1. start evolution
2. select edit -> preferences -> composer preferences -> spellchecking (by default has no greek spell checking, nor is English enabled, YET IT INDICATES EVERY WORD AS WRONG IN COMPOSER (IHMO this is a bug, should not spellcheck without active dictionaries.)

ok, then, let's install one then...

3. click help -> spell checking 

it prompts for "install hunspell" or "install enchant"


4. click "install hunspell" -> additional packages required
5. click "find in software"


Actual results:

MISSING PACKAGE

same applies for enchant


Expected results:

English and Greek dictionaries installed as needed


Additional info:

If I install aspell-el and aspell-en, the proper dictionaries appear, but this method is not mentioned in Evolution help. 

In addition, it spellechecks, finding everything wrong, when no spellcheckers are installed or selected.

Comment 1 g.p.dimitropoulos 2015-12-26 12:56:37 UTC

BTW, installing aspell as proper line of action was to be found at an UBUNTU related evolution page.

Comment 2 Milan Crha 2016-01-11 10:33:15 UTC

Thanks for a bug report. The point 2) is a bug in the code (no need to use capitals to express the issue). The rest looks like a possible enhancement request for the documentation of the Evolution. I'm afraid it won't be doable properly without having several targeted steps for some common distributions, which can be something very hard to keep updated, due to distribution changes. From that point of view the documentation writers decided to give some generic hints what can be missing. For example some distributions do not provide binary packages, thus what you do is not to install some package, but you compile the package from sources, which is a huge difference for regular users. That is that the installation of the dictionaries means to install some common software (enchant (or hunspell)) and then the dictionary itself, which is usable by the enchant. As the distributions can name dictionaries differently...

I agree with your request to enhance the documentation for the spell checking installation, but this should be managed upstream, in https://bugzilla.gnome.org .

I keep this opened for the point 2), to not mark words as misspelled when the spell checking is turned on with no dictionaries enabled or installed.

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 20:00:03 UTC

Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
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