Description of problem: Dictionaries installed in OpenOffice.org should also be useable from Thunderbird. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.5.0.8 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install OpenOffice.org + dictionaries of languages other than English, and Thunderbird 2. Try spell checking under Thunderbird 3. Actual results: no other language than English shows up in the Thunderbird language dialog box Expected results: it should offer the OpenOffice.org dictionaries Additional info: Thunderbird can use two kinds of dictionaries: * xpi format, from mozilla.org, but these cannot be installed on Fedora's Thunderbird (see bug 217187) * OpenOffice.org's dictionaries (.aff and .dic files). Simply symlinking .aff and .dic files for the spelling dictionaries of OpenOffice.org into the Thunderbird dictionary tree works wonders. Simple demonstration script: cd /usr/lib64/thunderbird-1.5.0.8/components/myspell cat ooo-import-dict.sh #!/bin/sh ooopath=/usr/lib64/openoffice.org2.0/share/dict/ooo for file in $ooopath/??_??.dic $ooopath/??_??.aff ; do file2=`echo $file|sed -e s/_/-/ -e s+$ooopath/++` ln -s $file $file2 done The language packs for OpenOffice.org should add these symlinks for free.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 202403 ***