Description of problem: Trying to unify our set of dictionaries, so that all desktop components agree on spell suggestions. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary So OOo uses hunspell, firefox3 also uses hunspell now so we can share those dictionaries. gedit and libsexy (as used by xchat) uses enchant, which defaults to using hunspell dictionaries if it can find them so they can share too. gnome-spell (as used by evolution) uses aspell, but attached is the same patch as used by JDS etc to point gnome-spell at enchant which will then use hunspell dictionaries if available or aspell if not.
Created attachment 290143 [details] patch to use enchant
Looks good to me. Fixed in gnome-spell-1.0.8-2.fc9. (btw, I'm hoping to move GtkHTML over to enchant in the near future.)
I consider this bug only partially solved. Remaining problem is that not all dictionaries are recognized due to hardcoded list of languages available. E.g. this leads to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442539 There is a patch on http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11001 to have languages list got from enchant. Maybe it can be incorporated as a more proper solution?
GnomeSpell will likely be dropped from Fedora 10. The latest development releases of GtkHtml and Evolution no longer use it.
So that's about Fedora 10 and latest GtkHTML and Evolution. What about Fedora 9? Can someone possibly review the patch referenced above? 'FeatureDictionary' is marked complete in 100% - and that's not actually true according to GnomeSpell not using hunspell for all languages supported. So IMHO this bug should be reopened (or better fixed properly).
Any response? It's really annoying to have everything underlined in red, and I guess "The latest development releases of GtkHtml and Evolution no longer use it." is no explanation for Fedora 9 potential users.
The GnomeSpell patch looks very similar to what I did in GtkHtml. Uses iso-codes to match Enchant's language codes against standard translated language names. It's too late to get this in prior to Fedora 9, but I can push an update to the Testing repo if you're willing it test it. Reopening in the meantime.
I'd be glad to.
Patch applied to gnome-spell-1.0.8-5.fc9. Piotr, can you please test this package? You can grab it from here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/gnome-spell/1.0.8/5.fc9/
Works great for me, thanks!
gnome-spell-1.0.8-5.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
gnome-spell-1.0.8-5.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gnome-spell'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-3773
*** Bug 442539 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 447464 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
gnome-spell-1.0.8-5.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.