According to: http://garyshood.com/konversation/ Besides obviously having aspell and enabled manual editing to this configuration file is required ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals it would be nice if the manual configuration was not required. [KSpell] KSpell_Client=1 KSpell_DictFromList=1 KSpell_Dictionary=en KSpell_Encoding=0 KSpell_NoRootAffix=0 KSpell_RunTogether=0 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Feature requests need to go to bugs.kde.org, not here.
Users of other distributions report not having to make these changes to kdeglobals.
I'm also told it can be altered in KControl -> KDE Components -> Spell Checker
Speaking as Konversation's upstream maintainer: We don't dick around with spell-checking ourselves; rather spell-checking is provided by kdelibs and built into the text entry widget we use. The settings you quoted are set in the GUI through the KDE Control Center, in KDE Components -> Spell Checker. 'kcmshell spellchecking' brings up the KControl module directly. It's true that spell-checking can fail to work (on a KDE-wide basis) if the spell-checking settings in KControl are wrong, e.g. the wrong checker is selected, or the wrong dictionary. It's partly the distro's job to provide useful defaults there if it champions a particular spell-checking implementation (such as aspell), but that's a difficult proposition with Gentoo for obvious reasons.
Eike: The problem is that KDE still supports the dead old Ispell via enchant (it seem the enchant author doesn't care to fix the issue¹ ruling out its usage - yes I approached him about it a long while ago) and worse, it's KDE's default, while we just support Aspell, but didn't modify the code accordingly. I did not have time to work on Gentoo actively for a while, but hope to fix this and the one or the other kdelibs 3.5 issue either this weekend or on easter. [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81415 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 202627 ***
