On Fri, 01 Nov 2024, Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Friday, November 1, 2024 11:05:57 PM MST Don Armstrong wrote: > > Where is this documented in the Debian dictionary policy? > > It is documented in the dictionaries-common package. Specifically, you > can see the changes that were added to this package in the following > two MRs:
Thanks for cluing me in; I should have checked there first. > "The Qt packages will install the following system-wide environment > variable in /etc/environment.d/ so that programs that use Qt WebEngine > will be able to find the .bdic dictionaries: > > QTWEBENGINE_DICTIONARIES_PATH=/usr/share/hunspell-bdic/” The challenge with this approach is that the environment.d is only read by systemd and processes launched from the systemd manager, and only when they are directly launched. So if you started your window manager before that file was put there, any programs you launch from your window manager won't obey that file and won't be able to find the dict files. [For example, my system currently doesn't have that environmental variable set.] Also, that file isn't read if you're not using systemd (or otherwise starting a process that doesn't cause systemd-environment-d-generator to be called). If we want to use /usr/share/hunspell-bdic instead of the default, we should push a patch to change the default value for that environmental variable instead. Until then, keeping the symlinks will make things work if that variable isn't set. But I'll move the real file to that directory so it'll work if the variable is set. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Leukocyte... I am your father. -- R. Stevens http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1546
