Re: [Evolution] Evo 1.2 - spell checker missing English

[Etienne Tourigny <et omeo ca>]

The bug I had (number 1 in this mail) which was that certain languages
were not available even though they were installed, has been resolved.

I had some stale gconf lock files : ~/.gconfd/lock/ior and
~/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ior.

I simply removed them then re-logged and the languages are now available.

This gconf bug has to do with NFS and/or system crashes.  If you ever get weird 
configuration issues like this you can safely delete the lock files after closing
all your applications, then re-login.

Cheers!

Etienne

On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 14:36, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
> Gretings,
>
> A few issues related to spell checking:
>
> 1)
>
> I have installed evo-1.2.0 with all the required updates.  I cannot seem
> to add English(American or Canadian) to the list of spell checker
> languages.  In the Settings under Composer Preferences->Spell Checking
> the only available languages are French(France) and French(Swiss).  
>
> Here are the spell checking rpms installed (found with rpm -qa | grep
> spell):
>
> aspell-fr-0.1-1
> aspell-devel-0.33.7.1-9
> pspell-0.12.2-ximian.7
> gnome-spell-0.5-1.ximian.3
> aspell-en-ca-0.33.7.1-9
> aspell-0.33.7.1-9
> pspell-devel-0.12.2-ximian.7
>
> Curiously, I tried setting up a new account with another user (first use
> of Evolution) and the following languages are available without any
> intervention: English(American), English(Canadian), French(France),
> French(Swiss).
>  
>
> 2)
>
> Furthermore under the gnomecc I cannot configure spell checking, when  I
> click on "Configure spell checking" in the HTML Viewer & Editor:
>
> Cannot execute GNOME Spell control applet.
> Try to install GNOME spell if you don't have it installed.
>
> But I do have gnome-spell installed(0.5.1)!
>
> I noticed other gnome-spell packages that include
> /usr/bin/gnome-spell-properties-capplet but the one supplied by Ximian
> does not.
>
>
> 3)
>
> How does one add a language to the list of available languages?  As I
> understand gnome-spell uses pspell and the language dictionaries are in
> the aspell-* RPMS (e.g. aspell-fr).  How about if I have a aspell
> dictionnary that doesn't have a corresponding RPM?  Which files are
> needed and where do they go? 
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Etienne
>
>
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