LibreOffice should automatically detect installed dictionary and allow ease in changing to it

[Wise Melon]

I have found that even after installing the "English (UK)" language packs on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME 3.20 that I must set it in the settings for LibreOffice Writer and the majority of the other ones in the suit require this.

Though I think it would be much easier if if one has the needed language packs installed for the only thing to really need doing to be setting the "Text language" thing at the bottom. Currently if I try and do that without setting it in the main settings in several places it just jumps back to "English (US)" immediately without giving me any hint of what I should do to achieve what I want.

[Bruce Pieterse (octoquad)]

I can confirm that isn't an issue in Ubuntu Disco Dingo (19.04) with LibreOffice 6.2.2.2 20(Build:2).

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream issue was closed "RESOLVED WORKSFORME" ON 2017-11-13
Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) reached end-of-standard-support on April 29, 2021.
Comment #1 says not an issue with Ubuntu 19.04.
Reporter no longer uses Launchpad so closing remaining task
as 'Invalid' as not a specific Ubuntu GNOME issue anyway.