Bug 398247 - Spellchecking KCM should give more info on what "backend" is missing
Summary: Spellchecking KCM should give more info on what "backend" is missing
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: frameworks-sonnet
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian stable Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Sandsmark
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Reported: 2018-09-04 14:10 UTC by Leszek Lesner
Modified: 2022-05-16 11:32 UTC (History)
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Description Leszek Lesner 2018-09-04 14:10:59 UTC 
Instead of just telling the user "backend" is missing it should give more detailed information like "Please install a dictionary like hunspell/aspell/myspell and make sure to have sonnet plugins installed". 

The latter is often forgotten by distros and most people are unable to make spellchecking work as only a part knows about aspell/hunspell/myspell and even a smaller part knows about sonnet-plugins.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-09-04 17:50:05 UTC 
> The latter is often forgotten by distros

Can you file bugs for various distros then?

That said, yes, we could make the user experience a bit better for when distros don't do their part.
Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2018-09-11 15:46:08 UTC 
> Can you file bugs for various distros then?

I think we should have a runtime dependency on aspell or whatever in CMake to notify distros that this is recommended to have. I just did the same for appmenu-gtk-module in hopes they will ship it by default or add it as recommended dep
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-09-11 23:46:16 UTC 
+1, sounds like that may be the nudge they need.