[Novices] Evolution spell checker

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Sun Jan 23 11:37:09 EST 2005


> > > Brock, you can also go into add/remove software and search for "spell".
> > > Then add anything that starts with "gnome" or "gtk", plus add anything
> > > that starts with "ispell" or "aspell", _except_ for the foreign language
> > > dictionaries that you don't care about.  You can also skip packages
> > > ending with a "-devel" suffix.  Then go back to evolution and see if you
> > > can check a language box like I did in my link above.
> > What about just bagging Evolution 
> It's really not that hard to check a few packages and install them.

I have -
laptop01:/media/cdrecorder/suse/i586 # rpm -qa | grep spell
myspell-american-20040623-2
ispell-british-3.2.06-460
gtkspell-2.0.5-58
aspell-0.50.5-40
ispell-3.2.06-460
myspell-british-20040208-28
ispell-american-3.2.06-460
gnome-spell2-1.0.5-218
gnome-spell-0.5-248
- but still no composer spell checking in evo.  Hmmmm...

> > and downloading something like Thunderbird?  
> > Would that just download and run?
> Why _download_ Thunderbird?  
> It should come on your SuSE CD's, if you want to try it.
> (it's called MozillaThunderbird on SuSE)

I have users that use it on M$-Windows;  but none on Linux.  Given EDS,
D-Bus, and EPlugin I think running Thunderbird on Linux doesn't make
much sense.



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