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, ~m -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
