Adding word to dictionary should not ask for dictionary file

[Sebastian Urban]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

reproduce:

1. type word with wrong spelling in openoffice writer
2. openoffice writer marks this word red
3. right click on the word to open context menu
4. when you choose "add", you have to select the dictionary file "standard.dic" in a submenu

this is clearly a useability issue.

many people (i. e. non-developers) probably don't even know what a dictionary file is.

suggestion: let the user choose the dictionary in the options dialog. remove the confusing and hindering sub menu!

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

The reason it shows standard.dic is because you can have multiple dictionaries and the one that is standard is called standard.dic, if you make another one in options area then it will show both the standard.dic and newdictionary.dic that you added.

[Endolith (endolith)]

In Calc, if there is a word improperly marked as a misspelling, I want to add it
to the dictionary so the false positive doesn't show up anymore. I right-click
the word and click "Add". It pops out a menu with several options.

Previously, it looked like this:

   soffice.dic
   sun.dic
   IgnoreAllList
   standard.dic

Now it looks like this:

  standard.dic
  Ubuntu.dic
  soffice.dic
  IgnoreAllList

I am a technical user, and I have absolutely no idea which option I
should select. A non-technical user would just be lost.

Instead, the context menu action should be more explicit, like "Add to
dictionary" or "Word is spelled correctly" or "Not a misspelling".

If there is only one logical choice for the dictionary, then there should be no
sub-menu. Clicking "Add to dictionary" should just add it to the user's custom
dictionary.

If there is a choice to be made, it should be stated in a clear way. If there's
a difference between a user's custom dictionary and the system-wide custom
dictionary, for instance, the sub-menu choices could be phrased as "Add to my
dictionary" and "Add to dictionary for all users".

[Endolith (endolith)]

I'd say that Ubuntu.dic and soffice.dic aren't meant to be added to. If they need words added to them, it should be done as a bug report. IgnoreAllList is apparently identical to just selecting the Ignore All option, so that shouldn't be there, either.

[Endolith (endolith)]

If you use the Spelling tool, the Add button is a drop-down with only one option: "standard [All]". This option appears even if standard.dic is empty and does not appear in the context-click menu. If it doesn't exist, adding it here will create it.

[Enigma no2 (enigmanumbertwo)]

Interesting thread. I found it because I'm needing _more_ custom dictionary options. Until recently, I was only a casual word processor user, but have been using multiple user dictionaries for many years. I figured that if I was going to modify (add to) the dictionary(s), I should learn how to use them. Maybe I'm the odd man out?

[Endolith (endolith)]

Why do you need multiple user dictionaries?

[amay82 (andimayer82-deactivatedaccount)]

And wtf is "standard.dic"? (Assuming that) I'm a normal user without any knowledge about ".dic" files, why should I know what standard.dic is and for what reason I have to add a word to "standard.dic" instead of just adding it?

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

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