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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: kedit: ispell language switching is bugged
- From: J S Bygott <jsb_no_spm@jsbygott.fsnet.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:27:11 +0000
- Message-id: <20070223112711.3520.97657.reportbug@localhost.localdomain>
Package: kedit
Version: 4:3.5.5-3
Severity: normal
Several editors in kde integrate with spelling checking (e.g ispell).
No problem if you only use one dictionary.
The problems come if you often need to switch language.
(This is an area where debian should excel. Think: language teacher preparing
worksheets, or student writing literature essays, or people with customers
abroad, or ...)
kwrite does the switching beautifully
kedit tries to do the same but is bugged
kmail composer
tries to do the same but is bugged differently (it pops up both a
checker in the changed language and a box saying you need to close
and restart!)
kword does it brokenly (it's not clear if it's trying to integrate in the
same way or trying to do it differently; but what it does is badly
broken: offering a languages unrelated to what is installed,
e.g. hebrew, and crashing if those are then chosen)
Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409015, where I
described the correct behaviour of kwrite, and why kedit/kmail/kword do this
incorrectly.
(I realise that I should have filed separate bugs to help track the
issues. Sorry about that. That's what I am doing now.)
Many thanks for looking at this. I'm sure switching languages is useful
for many people.
(Dr) Jeremy Bygott
Oxford
I'm told that there is a joke in Finland. If you speak three languages, you
are trilingual. If you speak only two languages, you are bilingual. And if
you speak only one language? Then you are English.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages kedit depends on:
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 core libraries and binaries for al
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
kedit recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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