Out-of-the-box broken spell-check with desktop spin
 

Hi,

A friend reported to me today that spell-checking in gedit was broken on
their Fedora 17 desktop live cd install. After some searching around on
the web, they figured out a workaround: installing enchant-aspell.

To me, it seems like a bug to ship with broken spellcheck. There seem to
be issues with both gedit and AbiWord:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825449
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750981
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771089
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818995


It looks like the dictionaries were pulled out of the spin when the ISO
was just squeezing under size limits to save space:
https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/browser/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks

I don't think we're that space constrained today, are we? The spell
checking packages (to support English) seem to only be a couple megs
compressed. I'm wondering, since the live cd spin is only focused on
English-speaking users anyway (IIRC only English translations are
available on it), would it be worth considering shipping the English
dictionaries to save space yet still have functioning spell check?

It's also pretty unclear how to add dictionaries should you discover
they aren't there (maybe some packagekit integration needed?):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750986

Or perhaps not installing/enabling spell-check in gedit by default since
it doesn't work by default? :-/

Anyway, this looked to me like it's been a problem for a few releases
now, across multiple bugs and apps, so I thought this might be a good
place to point it out.

Thanks,
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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Máirín Duffy <duffy@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

Hi,



A friend reported to me today that spell-checking in gedit was broken on

their Fedora 17 desktop live cd install. After some searching around on

the web, they figured out a workaround: installing enchant-aspell.



To me, it seems like a bug to ship with broken spellcheck. There seem to

be issues with both gedit and AbiWord:



https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825449

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750981

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771089

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818995





It looks like the dictionaries were pulled out of the spin when the ISO

was just squeezing under size limits to save space:

https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/browser/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks



I don't think we're that space constrained today, are we? *The spell

checking packages (to support English) seem to only be a couple megs

compressed. I'm wondering, since the live cd spin is only focused on

English-speaking users anyway (IIRC only English translations are

available on it), would it be worth considering shipping the English

dictionaries to save space yet still have functioning spell check?
No, this is wrong, the Desktop spin livecd contains translations for all languages we support.




It's also pretty unclear how to add dictionaries should you discover

they aren't there (maybe some packagekit integration needed?):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750986



Or perhaps not installing/enabling spell-check in gedit by default since

it doesn't work by default? :-/



Anyway, this looked to me like it's been a problem for a few releases

now, across multiple bugs and apps, so I thought this might be a good

place to point it out.



Thanks,

~m



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On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 22:49 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A friend reported to me today that spell-checking in gedit was broken on
> their Fedora 17 desktop live cd install. After some searching around on
> the web, they figured out a workaround: installing enchant-aspell.
>
> To me, it seems like a bug to ship with broken spellcheck. There seem to
> be issues with both gedit and AbiWord:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825449
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750981
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771089
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818995

aspell should be a red herring here.

So..., gedit has a spell plugin (/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/libspell.so)
which links to enchant, and enchant defaults to including the hunspell
plugin (with the aspell plugin an optional extra) so hunspell libs are
presumably pulled in. So it must be the case that the hunspell-en
dictionaries are not installed.

i.e. if anyone has the problem then presumably rpm -q enchant hunspell
succeeds, and rpm -q hunspell-en fails ?

I'm going to assume that it's that problem, and marked most of these as
duplicates of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573516 and
there's a testing update of hunspell-1.3.2-5.fc17 now

> It's also pretty unclear how to add dictionaries should you discover
> they aren't there (maybe some packagekit integration needed?):
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750986

It might be nice to have a spell(:lang=XX) provides in rpm to enable
prompting and auto-install of dictionaries for a language if missing and
spelling is requested, e.g hunspell-en installed, but locale is de_DE
and spellchecking in gedit/libreoffice is activated => hunspell-de (or
German Support Collection) is suggested for installation.

I duped the rest of the bugs that are along those lines together as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750986 e.g. do something
similar to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AutoFontsAndMimeInstaller except
for spell checking

FWIW yum install hunspell-LANG should work in practice for most
languages. And if you use add/remove software and go to package
collections, and grab e.g. "French Support" one should get the
spellchecking, hyphenation, thesaurus etc stuff for French.

Though this is a bit messy in the add/remove software UI at the moment.
It would be nicer to break out the language support collections from the
generic "Collections" bucket into a toplevel category of its own.

C.

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Caolán McNamara (caolanm@redhat.com) said:
> > It's also pretty unclear how to add dictionaries should you discover
> > they aren't there (maybe some packagekit integration needed?):
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750986
>
> It might be nice to have a spell(:lang=XX) provides in rpm to enable
> prompting and auto-install of dictionaries for a language if missing and
> spelling is requested, e.g hunspell-en installed, but locale is de_DE
> and spellchecking in gedit/libreoffice is activated => hunspell-de (or
> German Support Collection) is suggested for installation.

The yum-langpacks plugin will pull in the proper dictionaries when hunspell
is installed if you're installing in a particular language - where we
fall down a bit is how to handle the 'I want to install language support
later" case.

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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> wrote:

Caolán McNamara (caolanm@redhat.com) said:

> > It's also pretty unclear how to add dictionaries should you discover

> > they aren't there (maybe some packagekit integration needed?):

> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750986

>

> It might be nice to have a spell(:lang=XX) provides in rpm to enable

> prompting and auto-install of dictionaries for a language if missing and

> spelling is requested, e.g hunspell-en installed, but locale is de_DE

> and spellchecking in gedit/libreoffice is activated => hunspell-de (or

> German Support Collection) is suggested for installation.



The yum-langpacks plugin will pull in the proper dictionaries when hunspell

is installed if you're installing in a particular language - where we

fall down a bit is how to handle the 'I want to install language support

later" case.


Maybe we should have a GUI for this in GNOME, under the Language and Region control panel, that will allow adding or removing spellcheck dictionaries easily via packagekit.

(You don't really expect new users to know what hunspell or aspell are, right?)

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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Caolán McNamara (caolanm@redhat.com) said:
>> > > It's also pretty unclear how to add dictionaries should you discover
>> > > they aren't there (maybe some packagekit integration needed?):
>> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750986
>> >
>> > It might be nice to have a spell(:lang=XX) provides in rpm to enable
>> > prompting and auto-install of dictionaries for a language if missing and
>> > spelling is requested, e.g hunspell-en installed, but locale is de_DE
>> > and spellchecking in gedit/libreoffice is activated => hunspell-de (or
>> > German Support Collection) is suggested for installation.
>>
>> The yum-langpacks plugin will pull in the proper dictionaries when
>> hunspell
>> is installed if you're installing in a particular language - where we
>> fall down a bit is how to handle the 'I want to install language support
>> later" case.
>>
> Maybe we should have a GUI for this in GNOME, under the Language and Region
> control panel, that will allow adding or removing spellcheck dictionaries
> easily via packagekit.
> (You don't really expect new users to know what hunspell or aspell are,
> right?)

It shouldn't be needed, dictionaries should be installed when a user
adds language support, the dictionaries should be part of the language
groups. If that doesn't happen there's bugs in out language support in
the yum-langpacks plugin or the packaging of dictionaries and they
should be fixed.

But from the original mail from Mo it looks like the US dictionaries
should be there already.

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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

>

>

> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> wrote:

>>

>> Caolán McNamara (caolanm@redhat.com) said:

>> > > It's also pretty unclear how to add dictionaries should you discover

>> > > they aren't there (maybe some packagekit integration needed?):

>> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750986

>> >

>> > It might be nice to have a spell(:lang=XX) provides in rpm to enable

>> > prompting and auto-install of dictionaries for a language if missing and

>> > spelling is requested, e.g hunspell-en installed, but locale is de_DE

>> > and spellchecking in gedit/libreoffice is activated => hunspell-de (or

>> > German Support Collection) is suggested for installation.

>>

>> The yum-langpacks plugin will pull in the proper dictionaries when

>> hunspell

>> is installed if you're installing in a particular language - where we

>> fall down a bit is how to handle the 'I want to install language support

>> later" case.

>>

> Maybe we should have a GUI for this in GNOME, under the Language and Region

> control panel, that will allow adding or removing spellcheck dictionaries

> easily via packagekit.

> (You don't really expect new users to know what hunspell or aspell are,

> right?)



It shouldn't be needed, dictionaries should be installed when a user

adds language support, the dictionaries should be part of the language

groups. If that doesn't happen there's bugs in out language support in

the yum-langpacks plugin or the packaging of dictionaries and they

should be fixed.
I think it's a dictionary packaging problem then, cause yum-lungpacks is not related to this. yum-langpacks will install the language support subpackage which is appropriate for your system UI language* when you install a package that has one. Therefor I assume this bug is in comps: the dictionaries should be inserted to the relevant language-support category.




But from the original mail from Mo it looks like the US dictionaries

should be there already.



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Elad Alfassa (elad@fedoraproject.org) said:
> > It shouldn't be needed, dictionaries should be installed when a user
> > adds language support, the dictionaries should be part of the language
> > groups. If that doesn't happen there's bugs in out language support in
> > the yum-langpacks plugin or the packaging of dictionaries and they
> > should be fixed.
>
> I think it's a dictionary packaging problem then, cause yum-lungpacks is
> not related to this. yum-langpacks will install the language support
> subpackage which is appropriate for your system UI language when you
> install a package that has one. Therefor I assume this bug is in comps: the
> dictionaries should be inserted to the relevant language-support category.

The language support groups are deperecated and likely to be removed
shortly, in favor of the yum-langpacks usage.

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Hi,
> aspell should be a red herring here.
>
> So..., gedit has a spell plugin
> (/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/libspell.so)
> which links to enchant, and enchant defaults to including the
> hunspell
> plugin (with the aspell plugin an optional extra) so hunspell libs
> are
> presumably pulled in. So it must be the case that the hunspell-en
> dictionaries are not installed.
>
> i.e. if anyone has the problem then presumably rpm -q enchant
> hunspell
> succeeds, and rpm -q hunspell-en fails ?
>
> I'm going to assume that it's that problem, and marked most of these
> as
> duplicates of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573516 and
> there's a testing update of hunspell-1.3.2-5.fc17 now
So we have this in the desktop spin kickstart file:

# Dictionaries are big
-hunspell-*

I guess if you have a Requires: hunspell-en in hunspell you'll win over that, but we should probably fix the kickstart anyway.

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On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> wrote:

Hi,

> aspell should be a red herring here.

>

> So..., gedit has a spell plugin

> (/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/libspell.so)

> which links to enchant, and enchant defaults to including the

> hunspell

> plugin (with the aspell plugin an optional extra) so hunspell libs

> are

> presumably pulled in. So it must be the case that the hunspell-en

> dictionaries are not installed.

>

> i.e. if anyone has the problem then presumably rpm -q enchant

> hunspell

> succeeds, and rpm -q hunspell-en fails ?

>

> I'm going to assume that it's that problem, and marked most of these

> as

> duplicates of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573516 and

> there's a testing update of hunspell-1.3.2-5.fc17 now

So we have this in the desktop spin kickstart file:



# Dictionaries are big

-hunspell-*



I guess if you have a Requires: hunspell-en in hunspell you'll win over that, but we should probably fix the kickstart anyway.
So we will have hunspell-en in the livecd, but what if someone changes the UI* or input language (this is a good reason for dictionaries to be a special case, you need them when you add input language, not* UI language) they won't get the related dictionary. Could we get the control panel install the relevant dictionary using PackageKit when you add a keyboard layout? eg. if I add Arabic it should install hunspell-ar so I would have spellcheck when typing in Arabic.

This will make using Fedora (and GNOME in general) easier for multilingual beginner users.



--Ray



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