Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.6 nothing in spellcheck list

[Joseph Stephens <joseph stephens capgeminienergy com>]

Update #2: 
This is for the edification of everyone.
Andre's note had the fix. 
I am running SuSE 10.1 which has proved to be a frustration in and of itself. (That's another story)
My 10.1 is an upgrade from 10.0 not a fresh install. 
The language that I am using is American English as primary but I also have other language sets installed. 
I did have aspell installed and had already installed the latest dictionaries for each of the languages that I was interested in having. I installed en_us last to prevent any potential over writing of file-sets that I may need. (a just in case measure).
I checked my gnome-spell and discovered that I had  gnome-spell-0.5-268 installed doing an rpm -q. 
I then did some searching for the version I needed and downloaded gnome-spell-1.0.7 from gnome.org.
Prior to installing it, I decided to search for SuSE RPMs that I could use to update the existing install and found that there is a gnome-spell2 installed on SuSE 10.1. Issuing an rpm -q yields  gnome-spell2-1.0.6-22.
After some further checking I could not find any packages for gnome-spell that were of the file-set level that we required. I proceeded to install the gnome-spell 1.0.7 tarball. After restarting Evolution, everything started working. In relation to spell checking. The list is also showing up in "Edit | Preferences | Composer Preferences | Spell Checking" now and are selectable. 

Thanks for the help!
jms

PS:
Steps:

1. Install/update latest to latest level of aspell
2. Install/update latest available dictionaries for aspell (google search will produce detailed instructions)
3. run aspell-import
4. Download gnome-spell-1.0.7 tarball from gnome.org
5. configure;make;make install gnome-spell-1.0.7
6. Enable Language and spell check in "Edit | Preferences | Composer Preferences | Spell Checking" menu if you haven't already done so.
7. Stop and restart Evolution

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 16:03 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> hi joseph,
>
> Am Freitag, den 30.06.2006, 11:34 -0500 schrieb Joseph Stephens:
> > I am having trouble getting spell check working on a copy of Evolution
> > on my laptop.
> > The Version is evolution 2.6 running on Suse 10.1.
> > I have aspell 6 and supporting dictionaries installed. 
> > What got me to this point is that my spell check was broken. I also
> > noticed that it was broken for other 
> > applications as well. That's when I discovered that I needed to update
> > the aspell dictionaries for v6.
> > After doing this, to things happened. My other applications that use
> > aspell started to work in regards to spell checking. Evolution started
> > to see the fact that words were misspelled but has no way to manually
> > check or offer alternate spellings.  
> > As I type this email, word highlighting operates on on misspelled
> > words. I do not get any options to check the spelling and the spell
> > check is actually greyed out. The only option I have is to "add a word
> > to dictionary".
> > Has anyone had this issue before? I've been looking for a way to get
> > evolution to refresh or something so that it will look or see that
> > aspell is installed and that the dictionaries are up to date. And most
> > important, that I can actually do a spell check and it offer up
> > alternate spellings.
>
> Make sure you have "gnome-spell" >= 1.0.5, "aspell" and
> "aspell-XX" (where "XX" is your locale, for example "aspell-en" for US
> English or "aspell-en-uk" for British English) installed, depending on
> your distribution package system.
> Evolution does not use "myspell".
> Then go to "Edit | Preferences | Composer Preferences | Spell Checking",
> and enable the available languages.
> As you haven't told which languages you have installed, please also note
> that some languages require "gnome-spell" >= 1.0.7 to be supported by
> Evolution.
> You can also check gnome-enabled dictionaries by using the application
> "gconf-editor". The GConf key "/GNOME/Spell/language" should contain a
> space-separated list of the languages you have enabled (i.e. "en-US es"
> for US english and Spain).
>
> cheers,
> andre
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