Bug#1020387: dictionaries-common: Consensus regarding the packaging of the Qt WebEngine hunspell binary dictionaries

[Soren Stoutner]

Dmitry,

I wanted to followup on the topic of symlinks from /usr/share/qt5/
qtwebengine_dictionaries and /usr/share/qt6/qtwebengine_dictionaries to /usr/
share/hunspell-bdic.

Now that some of the languages are shipping .bdic files, anyone can test how 
this works with programs that use Qt WebEngine.  For example, install Falkon.  
In the Preferences, go to the spell check tab.  A list of all available 
languages will auto-populate.  Enable at least one language and then type 
words into the search field in the middle of the screen to verify that spell 
checking is working.

However, the above instructions only work if there is a symlink from /usr/
share/qt5/qtwebengine_dictionaries to /usr/share/hunspell-bdic.  Users can 
manually create this symlink to test this out, but it would be preferable if 
one of the webengine packages would add it.

Soren

On Monday, December 26, 2022 10:32:20 AM MST Soren Stoutner wrote:
> Dmitry, can you also comment about adding a symlink from /usr/share/qt5/
> qtwebengine_dictionaries to /usr/share/hunspell-dict as part of one of the
> libqt5webengine packages and from /usr/share/qt6/qtwebengine_dictionaries
> as part of one of the libqt6webengine packages?
> 
> There is some information about where Qt WebEngines search for these
> dictionaries at
> https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-features.html#spellchecker[2]

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren at stoutner.com
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