[ubuntu-us-ut] Spell Checking in Empathy

[Benjamin Cardon]

KDE, woot!!
On Nov 4, 2011 3:18 PM, "Charles Curley" <charlescurley at charlescurley.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 14:18:46 -0600
> Will Smith <undertakingyou at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That is really interesting. I would have expected some granular
> > divisions in English-US and English-UK. All I see is "English" also.
> > There are some bug reports that seem to address this a little bit.
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/488131 and
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/445863
> >
> > One thing in the second bug it says to: " ... make Empathy recognize
> > US English words locally by using gconf-editor to change the relevant
> > entry at the path below from "en" to "en-US" and restarting Empathy.
> >   /apps/empathy/conversation/spell_checker_languages"
>
> Grumble. gconf-editor does not show empathy or telepathy under "apps".
> It also has no way to add a new app.
>
> <rant>I'm sure there's a tool that will let me do so, but I
> resent the time I have to waste learning how. This is another thing I
> don't like about Gnome, this brain dead pseudo-registry. It was stupid
> when Windows did it, and it's stupid now. Why not just have a
> plain text file one can edit with any text editor, like Bell Labs
> intended us to?</rant>
>
> And adding it might be a Soviet herring.
>
> * I tested gedit. It uses US spelling.
>
> * Comment 7 of the related Gnome bug indicates no such entry for
>  empathy in Lucid either. Maybe it would ignore one if I created it.
>
> Thanks, though, for your work on this.
>
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