https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75734
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 75734
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: Spell checking doesn't warn users if the selected
dictionary isn't installed, but rather returns a
potentially incorrect result
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.1.5.3 release
Component: Linguistic
Product: LibreOffice
LibreOffice shouldn't pretend to spell check something when it's lacking the
dictionary it's been asked to use. It should explicitly tell the user it can't
proceed. There are many confused users encountering this issue, from what I've
seen on many forum postings and many bug reports that have been submitted here.
LibreOffice should check for the presence of the required dictionary before
starting the spell check and provide a meaningful error message if it's not
found. Instead the spell check runs and reports no issues were found, which is
quite misleading.
(The steps to reproduce are quite simple: just change the associated dictionary
of selected text in a document to be any dictionary that isn't installed and
run the spell check.)
I'm surprised no one's filed a bug that points this out already, but I couldn't
find anything in the bug list. My apologies if I missed something. Responses
are typically that users should download the necessary dictionary separately,
which is all well and good, but the software itself should be telling them it
can't complete the action requested. There'd be fewer duplicate bug reports
about missing dictionaries if this was the case.
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