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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: kmail: ispell language switching is bugged
- From: J S Bygott <jsb_no_spm@jsbygott.fsnet.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:28:33 +0000
- Message-id: <20070223112833.3548.20032.reportbug@localhost.localdomain>
Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6
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 kmail depends on:
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 core libraries and binaries for al
ii kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libaudio2 1.8-3 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkcal2b 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE calendaring library
ii libkdepim1a 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE PIM library
ii libkleopatra1 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii libkmime2 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE MIME interface library
ii libkpimidentities1 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE PIM user identity information
ii libksieve0 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii libmimelib1c2a 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE mime library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-5 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages kmail recommends:
ii procmail 3.22-16 Versatile e-mail processor
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