GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 431002
an UI to configure the spellchecker languages would be nice
Last modified: 2015-01-16 23:29:55 UTC
The bug has been described on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/epiphany-browser/+bug/105323 "... When using with LANGUAGE=pt_BR.UTF-8 epiphany it works, but it still would be good to have epiphany in english and set the spell dictionary in spellchecker.dictionary."
Confirming.
*** Bug 511206 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 531031 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Actually the title of this bug is misleading. The original bugreporter asks for solving an issue where one isn't able to change spellchecking language in about:config (while in Firefox it's OK) and not for an additional feature at all. And if you look more carefully, #531031 is a duplicate of this one (and should be given some love as it isn't solved yet in 2.26.1), while #511206 is certainly not and should NOT be marked as a duplicate of this. Please reopen this or #531031.
Why not add a general place where configure spell checking under gnome-control-center for configuring it for all gnome apps (like evolution, epiphany, gedit...) ?
(In reply to comment #5) > Why not add a general place where configure spell checking under > gnome-control-center for configuring it for all gnome apps (like evolution, > epiphany, gedit...) ? I like the idea, but I think the use cases for the various apps can be very different, so it's not a one-size-fits-all preference. Why don't you file an enhancement bug for this?
(In reply to comment #5) > Why not add a general place where configure spell checking under > gnome-control-center for configuring it for all gnome apps (like evolution, > epiphany, gedit...) ? I am not sure what you want to configure there. The request is about changing the spell-checker to the language you need in a specific situation. I think I'm not the only one, I regularly switch between four different languages, of which three are not my mother tongue, so spell-checking in those languages is definitely needed and I need a quick and painless way to switch. In Firefox I can to so through the context menu: right-click -> languages -> [choose the language you want]. going to the control centre for that purpose would be impractical. In fact, there is one thing I like about Evolution: you can activate several languages at a time, which comes in quite handy if you use more than one language in an e-mail, something I do all the time. But for text areas you edit in epiphany, this would probably not be too urgent. Anyway, a decent solution would be highly welcome, because the amount of writing you do in the browser is constantly on the rise -> Wikipedia, GMail, blogs, bugzilla etc. So a decent spell checking function should be seen not as an optional goody but as an essential aspect of functionality.
In my case (only for english and spanish) I prefer "evolution way", I simply ask it for checking both languages at the same time... and is really great to not need to change setting anymore ;-) But you are true, it's for a different bug report (that I'll probably open tomorrow)
(In reply to comment #8) > But you are true, it's for a different bug report (that I'll probably open > tomorrow) See bug 595279.
Thanks, about bug that would open, it's bug 590397 Regards
We have UI for this nowadays.