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

["John Weber" <jweber math cudenver edu>]

Hi,

Since my spell problem with evo 1.2, I've upgraded my system to RH8.0,
but I went through my system backup from my RH7.1 and I did have a
~/.gconfd/lock/ior but no ~/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ior. I don't
know how to tell if they were stale or not, but maybe this was the cause
of my no languages available problem. I did have the menu entry in the
composer window "edit->spell check document" available (not grayed out),
but it never found any mispellings.

John

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 16:24, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
> 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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John S. Weber
jweber math cudenver edu
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