Bug 18298 – kspell won't let me choose the dictionary to use

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Olivier Reisch (RETIRED) 2003-03-27 10:30:53 UTC]

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://[e-mail]:/home/cvsroot"
FEATURES="ccache userpriv"

[Comment 1 Michele Balistreri (RETIRED) 2003-04-14 12:40:25 UTC]

i can't reproduce this, did you try upgrading to kde 3.1.1? (that is the one on which i'm 
currently testing) 

[Comment 2 Olivier Reisch (RETIRED) 2003-04-14 12:56:56 UTC]

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.

[Comment 3 Michele Balistreri (RETIRED) 2003-04-14 13:30:47 UTC]

try removing the full section [KSpell] from ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals 

[Comment 4 Olivier Reisch (RETIRED) 2003-04-14 13:47:33 UTC]

no change

[Comment 5 Michele Balistreri (RETIRED) 2003-04-14 13:54:37 UTC]

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 

[Comment 6 Olivier Reisch (RETIRED) 2003-04-14 14:42:14 UTC]

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.

[Comment 7 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2003-07-15 03:27:51 UTC]

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.