Ubuntu
language-selector package

option to choose spell-checking dictionary

Bug #184028 reported by David Prieto on 2008-01-18

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	language-selector (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: language-selector

Hi,

I'm a Spanish speaker and so is everyone else who uses my computer, so I like my system to be in Spanish. I and my bunch just feel more comfortable that way.

However, I often find myself doing stuff in English, like posting to these forums, chatting on IRC or taking notes in Tomboy. What's more, I often have to switch between both languages once and again.

I wish there was an easy method to select one (or better, more than one) spell dictionaries that were independent of your system language.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/language-selector

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David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail) wrote on 2008-01-18:

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I have made a mockup how how this idea could be implemented: the interface of the language selector would be the same, only with a second "spell check" column. Only languages with their first column checked (that is, installed languages) would have their second column available, all others would have the second checkbox greyed out.

In the mockup English, Esperanto and Estonian are installed but only English and Estonian have spell checking activated. Esperanto is available as a system language but words won't be checked in Esperanto. About Zdongkha and Faroese, they're not even installed so the spellcheck checkbox is greyed out.

By default, only the default language would be checked for spellcheck. But the user could easily check other languages.

Michael Vogt (mvo) on 2008-03-12

Changed in language-selector:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Confirmed

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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote on 2008-08-27:

I will add an option to selectively install / remove "writing aids" (this includes spell checkers) for each language. However, I don't see any possibility to use more than one spell checker if you type in multiple languages. This would be a useful feature, but it would need to be implemented in the application you want to use. Currently all language related functions are influenced by the environment locales.
Means, if your locale is set to es_ES, then only the Spanish spell checker will be used in any application which gets started from that environment. If you want to use the en_GB spell checker, then you would need to start your application in the en_GB environment. For example:

$ LANG=en_GB oowriter &

But then the UI for that application would probably be also in English.

If you want to be able to switch between spell checkers on the fly in a running application, that I'm afraid that application would need to be modified to allow this. Language-selector won't be able to help here.

Would the function to selectively install / remove "Writing Aids" in language-selector be sufficient to close this bug report?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-08-27:

This bug was fixed in the package language-selector - 0.3.7

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language-selector (0.3.7) intrepid; urgency=low

  * use update-notifier to display "restart session required" message
  * session restart is enough to apply "complex character support" (LP: #200197)
  * add a "details" section to gnome-language-selector to let users install
    only a subset of available laguage-support packages for a given language.
    (LP: #184028)
  * rewording in gnome-language-selector UI (LP: #236584)

-- Arne Goetje <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:46:27 +0800