<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Máirín Duffy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:duffy@fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">duffy@fedoraproject.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
<br>
A friend reported to me today that spell-checking in gedit was broken on<br>
their Fedora 17 desktop live cd install. After some searching around on<br>
the web, they figured out a workaround: installing enchant-aspell.<br>
<br>
To me, it seems like a bug to ship with broken spellcheck. There seem to<br>
be issues with both gedit and AbiWord:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825449" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825449</a><br>
<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750981" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750981</a><br>
<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771089" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771089</a><br>
<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818995" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818995</a><br>
<br>
<br>
It looks like the dictionaries were pulled out of the spin when the ISO<br>
was just squeezing under size limits to save space:<br>
<a href="https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/browser/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks" target="_blank">https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/browser/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks</a><br>
<br>
I don't think we're that space constrained today, are we? The spell<br>
checking packages (to support English) seem to only be a couple megs<br>
compressed. I'm wondering, since the live cd spin is only focused on<br>
English-speaking users anyway (IIRC only English translations are<br>
available on it), would it be worth considering shipping the English<br>
dictionaries to save space yet still have functioning spell check?<br></blockquote><div>No, this is wrong, the Desktop spin livecd contains translations for all languages we support.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
It's also pretty unclear how to add dictionaries should you discover<br>
they aren't there (maybe some packagekit integration needed?):<br>
<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750986" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750986</a><br>
<br>
Or perhaps not installing/enabling spell-check in gedit by default since<br>
it doesn't work by default? :-/<br>
<br>
Anyway, this looked to me like it's been a problem for a few releases<br>
now, across multiple bugs and apps, so I thought this might be a good<br>
place to point it out.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
~m<br>
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