I open kwrite or kate. I have selected default language. I wrote couple incorrect words and called spelling. Automatic Spell Checking is turned on and nothing is highlighted. Calling... 1. Option: Tools -> Spelling -> Spelling... - nothing happened after first use in case of next is showing dialog "Check spelling" with OK button and on status bar is drawing message about unknown word overlapping existing information. Please check attached screen. 2. Option: Tools -> Spelling -> Spelling (from cursor) - message about unknown word is drawing on status bar overlapping existing information. Please check attached screen. Change of dictionary doesn't help at all. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run kate/kwrite 2. write something incorrect in editor 3. call any Spelling option Actual Results: drawing error messages over statusbar Expected Results: incorrect words should be highlighted and in moment of calling Spelling should be appeared some helper dialog KWrite/Kate ver. 16.04.1; KFrameworks 5.22; Plasma 5.6.4
Created attachment 99121 [details] status bar after use Spelling option
(In reply to Piotr Mierzwinski from comment #0) > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. run kate/kwrite > 2. write something incorrect in editor > 3. call any Spelling option > > Actual Results: > drawing error messages over statusbar I did it with a couple of incorrect words, skipped them in the spellcheck, then launched another spellcheck and saw the error immediately. Arch Linux 64-bit Kate 16.04.2 KDE Frameworks 5.23.0 Qt 5.7 xcb wm
Same here on Opensuse 42.1, KDE 5.5.5, Kernel 4.1.27-24-default
This seems to be the same as bug#359682, which should be fixed in KDE Frameworks 5.39.0. The mentioned problem with automatic spell checking probably is related to bug#364293. Setting a different font or font size may help. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 359682 ***