[Evolution] tip on debugging spell-checking problems

["Ujwal S. Sathyam" <ujwal netbrowser com>]

This is what I do to debug spell-checking problems in Evolution.

1. Install the Balsa mail client.
2. Open a Composer window in Balsa, and do spell-checking.
3. If there is a problem, a window will pop-up giving a pretty good
descriptive message of what is wrong.

Balsa does not use gnome-spell, but it uses aspell, so there is a chance
that any problem there will be a problem in Evolution also.

This helped me on two occasions when spell-checking suddenly broke.
Turns out that some files from aspell were missing.

This method is somewhat extreme but it has helped me before. Evolution
should have a similar debug output window, IMHO.

Ujwal


On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 07:42, Andy Cedilnik wrote:
> Hello!
>
> (Sory fur mispeled woards, boot mi spail checher dose nut wark...)
>
> A while ago collegue who uses Mandrake 8.1 and used Evolution 1.0.2,
> asked me (Debian Woody, Evolution 1.0.3) how can he get spell check to
> work. I said: "Install gnome-spell" and he did. He used Red-carpet to do
> that and it did not work. He has gnome-spell installed but spell
> checking still does not work. 
>
> I since upgraded to Evolution 1.0.5 from Debian Woody repository and
> spell check worked better than ever. Today however, I wanted to install
> Mozilla 1.0 which is in Ximian's repository, and in the process it
> updated my Evolution to 1.0.7. Now my spell check does not work any
> more. I traced the problem to the fact that gnome-spell did not get
> installed. The reason? Well, gnome-spell depends on aspell, aspell,
> depends on libpspell and libtdl, and libpspell depends on libtdl. libtdl
> however does not exist. 
>
> So, why would Evolution not do spell checking on Mandrake 8.1 with
> gnome-spell, aspell, and everything installed with Evolution 1.0.3?
>
> What about that libtdl?
>
> Thank you.
>
>                               Andy
>
>
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