[Novices] Evolution spell checker

[Brock Inglehart]

On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 21:08 -0500, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> > 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 only ran it for a few minutes, so I don't know how it handles things
> like spell checking (and I probably won't be able to answer any other
> questions you may have), but feel free to try it.  Let us know what you
> think about it.
> 
>  - BS

You would be proud of me.

I tried to load Thunderbird and Yast couldn't find it, so I tried your
above paragraph on finding and loading the dictionaries.  It worked and
I DID  have languages in the box now, clicked American and I think we
are off and running.
Thanks for your patience,...
Brock
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