Check Spelling: the menu "Languages" is empty in GNOME Text Editor

[Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes]

In the gnome-text-editor, users are unable to change the language of the spelling checker due to an empty "Languages" menu when right-clicking in the text.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: gnome-text-editor 46.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-31.31-generic 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.498
CloudArchitecture: x86_64
CloudID: nocloud
CloudName: unknown
CloudPlatform: nocloud
CloudSubPlatform: seed-dir (/var/lib/cloud/seed/nocloud)
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Apr 28 16:43:39 2024
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20240424)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: gnome-text-editor
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes (cfgnunes)]

I have tried to install the packages:

- aspell-pt-br
- hunspell-pt-br
- hyphen-pt-br

But no success.

[Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes (cfgnunes)]

Upstream bug tracker:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/issues/668

[Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes (cfgnunes)]

Christian Hergert (@chergert) said on the upstream bug tracker:

"This sounds like broken distribution packaging. We depend on enchant2 and if there are no languages available then that is outside of our responsibility."

...and closed the bug ticket. :/

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report

What's the content of

$ enchant-lsmod-2

and

$ enchant-lsmod-2 -list-dicts

on your system?

[Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes (cfgnunes)]

Hi, @seb128!

This is the output (running the live USB Ubuntu 24.04 with gnome-text-editor 46.1-1):

$ enchant-lsmod-2
aspell (Aspell Provider)
hspell (Hspell Provider)
hunspell (Hunspell Provider)

and

$ enchant-lsmod-2 -list-dicts
de_AT (hunspell)
de_AT_frami (hunspell)
de_CH (hunspell)
de_CH_frami (hunspell)
de_DE (hunspell)
de_DE_frami (hunspell)
en (aspell)
en_AU (aspell)
en_CA (aspell)
en_GB (aspell)
en_US (aspell)
en_ZA (hunspell)
es_AR (hunspell)
es_BO (hunspell)
es_CL (hunspell)
es_CO (hunspell)
es_CR (hunspell)
es_CU (hunspell)
es_DO (hunspell)
es_EC (hunspell)
es_ES (hunspell)
es_GT (hunspell)
es_HN (hunspell)
es_MX (hunspell)
es_NI (hunspell)
es_PA (hunspell)
es_PE (hunspell)
es_PR (hunspell)
es_PY (hunspell)
es_SV (hunspell)
es_US (hunspell)
es_UY (hunspell)
es_VE (hunspell)
fr (hunspell)
fr_BE (hunspell)
fr_CA (hunspell)
fr_CH (hunspell)
fr_FR (hunspell)
fr_LU (hunspell)
fr_MC (hunspell)
it_CH (hunspell)
it_IT (hunspell)
pt_BR (hunspell)
pt_PT (hunspell)
ru_RU (hunspell)

I have tried to install the packages:

- aspell-pt-br
- hunspell-pt-br
- hyphen-pt-br

[Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes (cfgnunes)]

Note that, on Ubuntu 22.04 (running gnome-text-editor 42.2-0ubuntu1) works very well with this output:

$ enchant-lsmod-2
hunspell (Hunspell Provider)
aspell (Aspell Provider)
hspell (Hspell Provider)

$ enchant-lsmod-2 -list-dicts
en (aspell)
en_AU (aspell)
en_CA (aspell)
en_GB (aspell)
en_US (aspell)
pt_BR (hunspell)