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

Harri Pitkänen hatapitk at iki.fi
Sat May 10 08:32:14 UTC 2008


The problem with Finnish/Voikko is that once an instance of EnchantDict has 
been created from Voikko provider, it must be disposed before new one can be 
created. Since the inline spell checking in Evolution uses one instance and 
the spell checking dialog tries to create another without disposing the 
first, it will fail. To fix this, either libvoikko or Enchant Voikko provider 
must be improved to allow more than one simultaneous EnchantDict instance to 
be created.

So there is nothing wrong with this patch to gnome-spell, the issue is 
elsewhere. I do not see any regressions compared to the original gnome-spell 
(languages supported by Aspell seem to work as before). Working inline spell 
checking for Finnish is a nice improvement, even if the separate dialog could 
not (yet) be used with Finnish.

Harri






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