empathy doesn't allow the ability to ignore certain "words"

[Michael Jones]

Binary package hint: empathy

The ability to mark certain strings to be ignored by the spell checker is invaluable.

Words that are clearly not in the dictionary, and don't have a place as suggested spellings, such as special purpose acronyms, or buzz words, shouldn't be added to the dictionary. But its annoying to see words that are deliberately spelled in certain ways over and over be marked as spelled incorrectly. Thus, it would be nice to have empathy ignore instances of that particular string when doing spell checking for either that conversation, or forever.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better. It will help us traige this better if we can know which version of Ubuntu you are using. Please paste the output of the following commands (use the terminal). 'apt-cache policy empathy' and 'uname -a'

[Michael Jones (jonesmz)]

So my question to you, is: does the newest version of empathy have this
ability? If so, then mark the bug as invalid. If not, then it should be
added.

on ubuntu karmic, i'm currently running 2.27.4 and am upgrading to 2.27.5

is this feature added between 2.27.4 and 2.27.5?

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Brian Curtis <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better. It will
> help us traige this better if we can know which version of Ubuntu you
> are using. Please paste the output of the following commands (use the
> terminal). 'apt-cache policy empathy' and 'uname -a'
>
> ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> empathy doesn't allow the ability to ignore certain "words"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411172
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> The ability to mark certain strings to be ignored by the spell checker is
> invaluable.
>
>
> Words that are clearly not in the dictionary, and don't have a place as
> suggested spellings, such as special purpose acronyms, or buzz words,
> shouldn't be added to the dictionary. But its annoying to see words that are
> deliberately spelled in certain ways over and over be marked as spelled
> incorrectly. Thus, it would be nice to have empathy ignore instances of that
> particular string when doing spell checking for either that conversation, or
> forever.
>

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

I have pushed this upstream. Follow along there and comment as you feel necessary. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593349