Confusing list when adding an unknown word to a dictionary

[Bruno Girin]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

When adding a word that is not known by the OO.o Impress spell-checker to a dictionary, the list presented to the user is very confusing as it consists of the names of the .dic files without an explanation of what each of them is used for. See the attached screen shot for details. On a Maverick install, the list is:
 * standard.doc
 * soffice.dic
 * Ubuntu.dic
 * IgnoreAllList

Presumably, the second one only applies to OpenOffice.org itself while the other ones may apply to other applications as well or to the whole OS.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open OpenOffice.org Impress
2. Enter some misspelt text
3. Right-click on the misspelt word
4. Navigate to the Add sub-menu

Expected behaviour:
The list of options in the Add sub-menu clearly states what is the scope of each dictionary (OO.o Impress only, all of OO.o, all of Ubuntu) by providing a textual description rather than a file name.

Actual behaviour:
The in the Add sub-menu gives the user no clue as to what the difference is between the different dictionaries and whether adding it to one or the other will make any difference.

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2011-02-14 - cannot reproduce in LibreOffice 3.3, Maverick -- leighman
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: openoffice.org (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 5 13:50:34 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100406.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

Screen shot of the menu on my laptop.

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

I only have standard.dic in LibO 3.3 on Maverick but that may just be my installation.
Would be good to see what happens in Natty and perhaps forward this as a papercut if it persists.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Bruno Girin, thank you for reporting this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. Does LibreOffice Writer work for you?

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y install libreoffice-writer

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

On Libreoffice (on Natty) it still shows raw names of .dic files; although there is only one on my install; I still say this needs a clean up.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

[This is an automated message.]
There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

Please leave references to upstream OpenOffice.org bugs in place to allow cross pollination.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Still present in libreoffice 3.4.3 on Oneiric

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for libreoffice (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]