Lemon Juice wrote:
On 2015-10-16 15:17, Ray_Net wrote:
And SM did not maintain my choice, It reset to the last option/language
"fr-reform".
that's why I said Spelling choice is not maintained.
Is this more clear ? :-)
Should I open a mozilla bug for this ?
There is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210172 marked as
invalid - the problem is these changes are intentional and are following
what is happening in Thunderbird.
I can confirm that dictionary choice has become a real mess in recent SM
versions, at first I didn't know what was happening because it's not so
simple that the preference in the Settings is always used for composing
messages. Well, it is but when we use the browser and set a different
dictionary in a text field (with the context menu) on a web page then
the global setting change to that! However, when we change dictionary
when composing mail then the global setting does not change. The result
is that the global setting usually gets changed to a dictionary we do
not want for new mail and we constantly have to go to the settings and
reset the dictionary to the one we want for mail - until we visit
another web site where we choose a different dictionary for a text
field, which messes up our settings again.
If you're talking about changing dictionaries ad hoc for a particular
mail composition window, I agree that should not affect the default
setting. But if you're talking about changing dictionaries for websites,
that should be stored in a site-specific cookie or preference. My
default is American English, but some sites get confused and set a
preference cookie for one of the other languages I use. If I go into the
Data Manager and filter for Preferences only, I can delete the pref
setting and all is well.
I don't think the whole idea of using the general dictionary settings
instead of recent is better. I agree that the previous behaviour of
remembering the last used dictionary was much better.
I don't know if filing a new bug will help - I don't know if the devs
would be willing to maintain different behaviour from Thunderbird.
However, it wouldn't hurt - with a bug report they will know what users
want.
Definitely, the current implementation is buggy because changing
dictionaries in the browser input fields should not affect the global
settings.
As far as I'm concerned, the setting at Edit | Preferences | Appearance
| Spelling ought to persist as the default until and unless the user
changes it, but the user should also have the option of choosing a
different dictionary ad hoc for a particular mail message or website
without affecting the default. But as things stand, my default persists
for a while until SM gets tired of it and randomly changes it to one of
my other dictionaries. I know because I'll be composing in English and
all of a sudden everything's flagged as misspelled; I look and it's
switched to Russian without authorization. I wonder if SM has some kind
of secret "detect language" feature that's intervening.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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