Bug 197154

Summary:	Option to change spellcheck language too hard to find, doesn't persist
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	tony
Component:	GUI	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bjoern, martin, svivanov
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.11.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description tony 2009-06-19 15:14:08 UTC

Version:           1.11.4 (using KDE 4.2.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

For no apparent reason (If I had an idea what caused it I'd raise another bug) my Kmail spellchecker suddenly decided to use the American English dictionary rather than the correct British English one.

Assuming I'd mucked up my system-wide configuration, I checked in systemsettings and the spellcheck language there was correct. So I started hunting around Kmail for an option to change it. The obvious place, Settings->Configure Kmail, revealed nothing. Neither did any other menu option or sub-option.

Eventually, more by luck than anything else, I discovered that by highlighting a word in the composer, right-clicking and selecting "check spelling", an option to change the language appeared.

Just to make this bug more irritating, the selected language setting only stays correct until Kmail is restarted, when it reverts to the incorrect American English spellings.

So essentially, there are three problems here:
1. Kmail fails to respect the system-wide spellcheck settings.
2. The option to change the language is extremely obscure.
3. Changing the language  fails to persist past the current Kmail session.

Comment 1 Martin Koller 2009-09-27 20:44:21 UTC

ad 1: kmail uses the per-identity spellchecker language
ad 2: use View -> Dictionary in the composer window to see the current dictionary or change it globally in the identity
ad 3: is the same as 1. if changed there, it is kept

Comment 2 Sergei Ivanov 2009-11-10 19:25:57 UTC

Could you please reopen this as a usability issue? This setting is very hard to find and it's bad that I have to configure the dictionary in the individual apps when there is a global KDE setting for this.

If there is a kmail-specific dictionary setting (per identity or not), there should be a 'Same as in System Settings' option for it. And it should be the default one.

Comment 3 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-13 15:14:32 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 225414 ***