Bug#473541: Make gnome-spell use Enchant instead of aspell

[Harri Pitkänen]

I built
 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-spell/gnome-spell_1.0.7-1.1.dsc

on amd64 and can confirm that it almost makes spell checking work for Finnish 
in Evolution using Enchant Voikko provider. I tried with very long texts and 
found no other problems except that spelling suggestions seem to work only 
through the context menu in message editor, not in the spell checking dialog 
that opens when you choose "Edit" -> "Check Spelling...". But this problem 
does not occur for English, so it may be a bug or missing functionality in 
libenchant-voikko and not in this patch. I'll try to investigate this 
further.

...

Now that I tried Hebrew with hspell provider, I found more problems. Some 
words seem to get underlined in the editor, but no spelling suggestions are 
available through the context menu and "Edit" -> "Check Spelling..." 
reports "No misspelled words found". I cannot actually read Hebrew so I'm not 
sure if the words that get underlined are real errors or not. But I do know 
that hspell should be capable of generating spelling suggestions (it does so 
in the experimental openoffice.org hspell extension I wrote a couple of 
months ago). Again, this could be a bug in Evolution or enchant hspell 
provider, but should probably be looked at by someone who actually knows 
Hebrew.

In any case, I'd like to see this patch get applied for lenny too, so I'll try 
to find out where the bugs are, at least for Finnish/Voikko.

Harri