show far too many spelling suggestions in context menu

Bug #135287 reported by Tom Badran
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
aspell (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

Using the english british dictionary, words such as 'im' and 'thats' (missing apostrophe) show many many (more than screen height for im) suggestions in the right click menu in the composer. I often type "im" instead of "I'm" so i probably notice this more often than most. The suggestions here should really be limited to maybe 5 or so of the most likely.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 28 14:45:15 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evolution 2.11.91-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: evolution --component=mail
ProcCwd: /home/tom
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux vader 2.6.22-10-386 #1 Wed Aug 22 07:43:24 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-bug
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Tom Badran (tom-badran) wrote :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. In that way it can make sense, but my mother tongue is Spanish and we have several words that are similar and having that "huge" list for my idiom make a lot of sense, i really think that in this case more is better.

Changed in evolution:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: New → Incomplete
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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote :

just a comment. I tried what the reporter did (using 'im'). Indeed the list is quite long, and I am not sure I follow the logic in proposing some of the options (like 'ia', 'EM' and 'em'), except like a non-exaustive and rather weird permutation thingy.

So there might be something here, but I guess it would be with aspell, not Evo.

OTH, you could add these non-standard words as a custom entry.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

re-assigned to aspell for now then, thanks.

Changed in evolution:
status: Incomplete → New
Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in aspell:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in aspell:
status: New → Confirmed
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