On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:35:25AM -0600, Chris Kuethe wrote: > On 7/12/06, steven mestdagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm still seeing the error "Could not load the dictionary for the > >English (US) [en-US] language" soon after I start typing. > > > >when selecting edit/preferences, the following warning appears > >(abiword:28186): libglade-WARNING **: Could not load support for > >`gnome': File not found > > > >I did some light testing on amd64, it seems to be working reasonably ok. > > quoth ktrace: > 5859 AbiWord-2.4 NAMI "/home/ckuethe/.AbiSuite/dictionary/american.hash" > 5859 AbiWord-2.4 NAMI > "/usr/local/share/AbiSuite-2.4/dictionary/american.hash" > > A few symlinks did the trick. > # mkdir -p ~/.AbiSuite/dictionary > # rm -f ~/.AbiSuite/dictionary/*hash > # ln -s /usr/local/lib/ispell/*hash ~/.AbiSuite/dictionary/
To me that just seems so wrong. Abiword should be able to find the dictionaries in the default location, without any end-user interaction, unless of course the end-user wanted to override the default dictionaries.
