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Bug 142094

Summary: deskbar-applet dictionary plugin silently fails if gnome-utils are not installed
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Nick Marino <nick42>
Component: [OLD] GNOMEAssignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor    
Priority: Low    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Nick Marino 2006-07-29 08:08:30 UTC
If the gnome-utils package (which contains gnome-dictionary) is not installed, the deskbar-applet will still show the dictionary plugin as present and allow the user to enable it.  However, when enabled it does nothing since gnome-dictionary is required for the plugin to function.  It would be nice if there could either be

a) a warning message displayed when attempting to enable the plugin if gnome-dictionary is not present, or
b) a check for the 'spell' use flag in the deskbar-applet ebuild that would either install gnome-utils as a dependency or prevent the dictionary plugin from being built/shown.
Comment 1 Saleem Abdulrasool (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-12-28 14:39:41 UTC
Fixed with 2.16.2-r2, sorry for the delay.