Is the title of this bug maybe incorrect? I think the real problem is "You can't select the default language you want Gedit to use for spell checking".
Sounds like that was true in 2009 & I think it is still true today, isn't it? Seems to be to me using Ubuntu 12.10. I live in France, most of my PC is in English, though the keyboard is French, and I only want spell checking when I write in French. Gedit decides I want English, for whatever reason (& I don't care what reason) & I have to set French EVERY time I want to use it. What I would like (and absolutely expect) is to be able to select whatever language I want (in my case French) as default, then select whatever other language I want (maybe German, English, USA or whatever) if I want, occasionally, with fallback to French next time. I certainly don't expect to be uninstalling dictionaries to trick Gedit into doing something... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315562 Title: spell check uses wrong English dictionary Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome: Confirmed Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Spellcheck in Ubuntu 8.10's Gedit 2.24.2 is using the wrong English dictionary. For example, US English has "color" and British English has "colour." In my case I want US. If I look at Tools-> Set Language-> I see a list with English on top followed by six specific English languages and Turkish. If I select "English (United States)" I get the dictionary I want but only for this Gedit session. There is no way I can find to always use US English so every time I open a Gedit session and want to spell check I have to specifically select Language. I attempted to delete the other dictionaries in the Synaptic Package Manger but since the languages are part of an umbrella package I'd create problems the next time I wanted to upgrade to a new Ubuntu release. I also tried the configuration editor but no parameter for language was available. I can't recall having to specify language with each Gedit session in past Ubuntu releases. There needs to be some way to set the default Gedit language for the spell checker plugin. My expectation is that once a language is selected it should stay the language until I manually change it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/315562/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
