Thunderbird 3 Shows only English dictionary in Spell menu
Bug #509248 reported by
Nikolaus Rath
This bug affects 8 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Micah Gersten | ||
Lucid |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Micah Gersten |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: thunderbird
The currrent thunderbird-3.0 build shows only "English" in the spell menu when composing messages, even if other hunspell or myspell dictionaries are installed.
Confirmed by micahg on #ubuntu-
(12:28:21 PM) Nikratio: Is it a known bug that thunderbird-3.0 shows only the English dictionary in the Spell menu, even if other hunspell or myspell languages are installed?
(12:29:49 PM) ***micahg can see the issue
(12:30:04 PM) micahg: Nikratio: please file a bug and tag ppa
(12:30:13 PM) micahg: in thunderbird package
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
summary: |
- [PPA] Shows only English dictionary in Spell menu + [PPA] Thunderbird 3 Shows only English dictionary in Spell menu |
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Micah Gersten (micahg) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
summary: |
- [PPA] Thunderbird 3 Shows only English dictionary in Spell menu + Thunderbird 3 Shows only English dictionary in Spell menu |
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
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This also affects me. I have the thunderbird- locale- en-gb and myspell-en-gb packages installed. Thunderbird shows the language pack correctly installed under 'Tools > Add-ons > Languages'. However, I am only able to select the United States English dictionary when composing email.
Current package versions (Lucid): -0ubuntu1 locale- en-gb: 1:3.0-0ubuntu2
thunderbird: 3.0.4+nobinonly
thunderbird-
myspell-en-gb: 1:3.2.0-2ubuntu2
This problem is caused by Thunderbird not correctly linking the myspell dictionaries into '/usr/lib/ thunderbird- 3.0.4/dictionar ies/'. I believe there are two possible solutions to this problem:
1) Link Thunderbird's dictionaries directory to the myspell dictionaries directory. This is the solution currently used by Firefox: lib/thunderbird -3.0.4/ dictionaries -> ../../share/ myspell/ dicts' firefox- 3.6.3/dictionar ies -> ../../share/ myspell/ dicts'.
'/usr/
c.f. '/usr/lib/
2) Link the individual dictionaries at the thunderbird-locale level. This would probably entail making the locale package dependant on the appropriate myspell dictionary pack, e.g.: locale- en-gb:
thunderbird-
Depends: myspell-en-gb
'/usr/ lib/thunderbird -3.0.4/ dictionaries/ en-GB.dic -> ../../. ./share/ myspell/ dicts/en- GB.dic' lib/thunderbird -3.0.4/ dictionaries/ en-GB.aff -> ../../. ./share/ myspell/ dicts/en- GB.aff' .
'/usr/