Description of problem: This may be an aspell bug, or it may be how evolution uses it. I speak Spanish and English. I recently got tired of not being able to spell check my Spanish emails and installed aspell-es. I now can. However, I see two HUGE bugs. First off, even with spanish being the "current language" selected under the edit menu, when I spell check, I get a lot of english words that DO NOT appear in spanish. Also, it defaults to adding the new words to the english dictionary. Both of these are serious flaws in the design. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): aspell-0.60.3-7.1 aspell-en-6.0-2.1 aspell-es-0.50-13.2.2 evolution-2.7.92-7.fc6 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set your language to one language 2. Install mutliple aspell dictionaries 3. Open evolution and create a new email 4. Set the current language to other than your default (english here) 5. Write an email make a few mistakes or don't use accent characters (I use spell check to help me fix these up). 6. Spell check 7. See all those english words and the add to english? Actual results: Spell check uses more than the current language in spell checking, it also provides suggestions from more than the current -- bad bad bad. Expected results: The current language should be the only one which aspell/evolution use to get suggestions and to check words against. Aslo, it should be the default for adding new words, not the default language of the system.
Sounds like it's either a composer (gtkhtml3) or a gnome-spell bug. I'll assume gtkhtml3 until I can prove otherwise. Trever, can you please post which version of gtkhtml3 and gnome-spell you're using?
gtkhtml3-3.12.0-1.fc6 gnome-spell-1.0.7-3.1 Hope that helps. Thank you for looking into this.
Apologies for taking so long to respond. Is this problem still present in Fedora Core 6 or later?
Ok, the add to dictionary doesn't default to the selected language (it defaults to the default language), however, I can now add it to the selected language... irritating, but ok. It is now a check box to select language. This is frustrating, but probably just an irritation. Shall we mark this closed then, or should the irritations be fixed?
Thanks for responding. I'll mark this closed then. Please open a separate bug report for the irritating language selection behavior, if you care to. A screenshot might be helpful.