From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NO8sX-0006N2-Qr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:02:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B2B7E073A for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:02:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com (mail-ew0-f224.google.com [209.85.219.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5C2E056C for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:33:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so9978134ewy.26 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:33:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=BJLgtF6GJrNneBfnKL5Ra+ZUIOX48dWBA6tJxbwTx/k=; b=DA0BsuWGcCevhuTv6kQMLmQz/E/S3UkKP/BMiCAsmSazsbihUBj3F0yf2jCjapQQf5 IPYwnFzQOoV5sEMfuF6wK2llmJY3bqhsuOYy8PA45sqmRr7UF6wim6zWyPFPvSAnLo3V Lvt+eOcHDZCXs6MN69mxVdqRBjuj7G58ZYj6U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=e9j2laOBA5Kz3XnK6n1oefu3vDRzFs+0x1lMs+QACeWiiilsGuNfiH9j8s+autjEI5 q7rWHn6/O7vULWlU+3UClt5lQEXRW4aIzqlHnze5Zca58fWpQ4OxOWR73cw5dmjb62yE QCJL7vKHBvDVhBsNPA1CoWRLI8mTCJRYZLVBI= Received: by 10.213.37.73 with SMTP id w9mr12261642ebd.27.1261737222411; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:33:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.184]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm6321358ewy.3.2009.12.25.02.33.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:33:40 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Spellcheck not working in Kmail Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:32:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.31-zen9; KDE/4.3.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <200912241716.12874.ddjones@riddlemaster.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912251232.08522.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ef1afcb7-a00b-48ee-a105-81ccd51619db X-Archives-Hash: 3dc599d007290f56672a6a84f0b89d4f On Friday 25 December 2009 02:36:08 Stroller wrote: > On 24 Dec 2009, at 22:16, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > Options/Automatic Spellchecking is checked and the status line at the > > bottom of Composer shows "Spellcheck: on." Manually selecting > > Tools/Spelling shows the message "Spell check complete." But no > > mispelled words are marked, including nonsense strings like "lakjdfh." > > It's been a long time since I used KDE / Kmail, at least since I did so > seriously. But I seem to recall there is an option in the preferences to > set the path to the spell-checker. This may be changes to > "/usr/bin/aspell", to ispell or whatever. I would not be surprised if > there is at least one other alternate spell-checker by now - maybe ispell > is no longer the default? This preference may be centralised in the main > KControl options panel, rather than in the Kmail-specific options, > assuming I am recalling its existence correctly. Somewhere in System Settings there is an option to set the global language for all KDE apps. This has caught me out before -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com