I finally got to the bottom of why spell checking was not working in Abiword. For me, this has been a long term problem. Aspell and associated dictionaries were installed correctly. Running aspell manually revealed that aspell was complaining about out of date config files in my home directory. Deleting ~/.aspell.* got aspell working on the command line, and then all of a sudden, Abiword spelling worked too. Abiword should be more explicit about the type of error it receives from the aspell libraries. At the moment, Abiword is giving the appearance of doing a spell-check (even with a "Spell check complete message"), but it is not actually checking anything. Many people still seem to have problems with Abiword spell checking--more work needed. Reproducible: Always
For aspell feature requests, you need to go upstream. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=245
Isn't this really an Abiword issue and a bug? It claims to do something "The spelling check is complete" when the check is *not* complete, and it hasn't checked anything. This is a case of on error, ignore and pretend that everything worked out OK.
We are not adding any warnings/features/etc anywhere to the code; that's not out business. We are only distributing the packages. Any such requests need to go upstream.
What happened to the policy of all bugs going to Bugzilla? I thought the package maintainers were supposed to handle upstream?
