does not spell check or is not enabled by default

[kabads]

Binary package hint: evolution

After running evolution to type an email, then composing a message, all the text in the main mail window is underlined red to show a spelling error, when in fact they are correct words.

Previous to Intrepid update, evolution checked spellings automatically.

On checking the preferences, Edit->Preferences->Composer Preferences-> Spell checking displays that English UK is enabled, but red lines still appear.

[kabads (adamc)]

After closing this window, it seems that spell checking is now enabled again (despite settings not being manually changed).

[Tim Bosse (timbosse)]

This appears to only happen when initially setting up Evolution. When you actually make a change to your spelling preferences as kabads mentioned, you no longer have the issue. Attached is a screenshot of the issue.

Here is 'apt-cache showpkg evolution' output:

Package: evolution
Versions:
2.24.1-0ubuntu2 (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_intrepid_main_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_intrepid_main_binary-i386_Packages
                  MD5: 832de61651a63f91fd98d5df755b23d9

Reverse Depends:
  screenlets,evolution
  phpicalendar,evolution
  mail-notification-evolution,evolution 2.24.1
  gnome-osd,evolution
  gnome-do-plugins,evolution
  gnome-desktop-environment,evolution 2.22.2
  evolution-rss,evolution 2.24.0
  evolution-rss,evolution 2.25.0
  evolution-plugins-experimental,evolution 2.24.1-0ubuntu2
  evolution-jescs,evolution 2.24.0
  evolution-jescs,evolution 2.25.0
  evolution-jescs,evolution 2.24.1
  ubuntu-desktop,evolution
  tomboy,evolution
  openoffice.org-evolution,evolution
  nautilus-sendto,evolution 2.4
  nautilus-sendto,evolution 2.4
  libpisync1,evolution
  libpisock9,evolution
  libgtkhtml-editor-common,evolution 2.23
  evolution-plugins,evolution 2.24.1
  evolution-exchange,evolution 2.23.0
  evolution-exchange,evolution 2.25.0
  evolution-exchange,evolution 2.24.0
  evolution-dev,evolution 2.24.1-0ubuntu2
  evolution-dbg,evolution 2.24.1-0ubuntu2
  evolution-data-server,evolution 2.23.6
  evolution-data-server,evolution 2.6.1
  evolution-common,evolution 2.6.2-1
  evolution-common,evolution
  contact-lookup-applet,evolution 2.0
Dependencies:
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ro2 (2 1.2.4) libcamel1.2-14 (2 2.24.1) libdbus-1-3 (2 1.0.2) libdbus-glib-1-2 (2 0.71) libebackend1.2-0 (2 2.24.1) libebook1.2-9 (2 2.24.1) libecal1.2-7 (2
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1) liborbit2 (2 1:2.14.10) libpango1.0-0 (2 1.21.6) libpisock9 (0 (null)) libpisync1 (0 (null)) libpixman-1-0 (0 (null)) libpng12-0 (2 1.2.13-4) libpopt0 (2
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ender0 (0 (null)) libxcb1 (0 (null)) libxcomposit...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

may someone having the issue forward it to bugzilla.gnome.org? for forwarding instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; leaving this as incomplete until that, thanks.

[KevinZ (kzembower)]

I also experience this problem. When I begin to reply to a message, all words are underlined until I go to Edit->Current Languages in the email creation window and select a language. However, for me, this setting is not saved, as the next time I reply, I have to select the language again.

This seems to have occurred when I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10.

Thanks for looking into this.

-Keivn

[KevinZ (kzembower)]

After reading the comments more carefully above, I did go to Edit->Preferences->Composer Preferences and select a different language, clicked OK and closed Evolution, then restarted it and again went to Edit->Preferences->Composer Preferences and selected the language I wanted. This seemed to fix it permanently through subsequent restarts. Thank you to the above posters who took the time and effort to write this out.

-Kevin

[Russel Winder (russel)]

I just upgraded Hardy -> Intrepid and came across this problem that every letter is deemed to be a misspelled word. It is very, very annoying. Very few Ubuntu users will see this as a quirk, they will see it as a disaster. Can I suggest this should be seen as a critical blocking bug to be fixed asap.

(Along with the disaster that is the neverending update of the cache files -- in the end I had to stop Evolution and delete the entire IMAP cache and start again.. This Evolution upgrade is a bit of a disaster.)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

could somebody having the issue send it upstream?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

just trying on jaunty with a new user the us dictionnary is selected and works correctly

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the spell checker works fine in jaunty on a stock user or livecd closing the bug, if you still get the issue describe exactly what locale, etc you are using