In any KDE application (kword, kmail, etc.) that uses the kspell kpart, whenever I try to change it's settings, i get the preferences panel for spell checking all fine and it also works fine for default English. However the popup for the dictionaries is greyed out and only displays ispell/aspell default no matter which spell checker i choose. Both ispell and aspell are installed with various language dictionaries installed. ispell works fine from the command line with all of these dictionaries. No idea whether this is PPC specific or happens on other platforms too. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.open kword/kmail 2.enter spell checking preferences panel 3.try to change spell checking dictionary Actual Results: doesn't work, unable to spell check in any language other than default english dictionary. Expected Results: Let me change dictionary to German, French, whatever, or even from UK English to US English... localhost root # emerge info Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-ppc-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.2-r0) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-ben9 ppc GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo// http://212.219.56.162/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo//" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="oss dvd xv jpeg mitshm gif png truetype ppc gnome-libs gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo guile mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla cdr scanner crypt cups dga directfb encode -esd fbcon -gnome gphoto2 gtk2 java ldap mbox mpeg ncurses -nls pdflib pic quicktime tcltk tiff usb xmms" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mcpu=750 -mpowerpc-gfxopt -fsigned-char" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mcpu=750 -mpowerpc-gfxopt -fsigned-char" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="cvs://doctomoe@gentoo.org:/home/cvsroot" FEATURES="ccache userpriv"
i can't reproduce this, did you try upgrading to kde 3.1.1? (that is the one on which i'm currently testing)
Yes, this IS KDE 3.1.1. Note that I already tried reemerging kdelibs/base as well as the various spell checkers. No luck at all.
try removing the full section [KSpell] from ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
no change
try to put this under the [KSpell] section then: KSpell_Client=0 KSpell_Dictionary=american (you can substitute american with whatever you want) and see if this "unlock" something
Hmm, changed it to french (francais), still no change. Box to choose dictionary still grayed out and still displaying "ispell default", which is English, as a small test in kword revealed.
This issue seems to be fixed with 3.1.2 and latest ispell/aspell. I can choose other languages just fine. I'll discuss remasking kde-3.1.2 as ppc stable - people have been running it for months.
