* How to add spell checking dictionaries to Icecat
@ 2017-08-29 23:03 Maxim Cournoyer
2017-09-03 20:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
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From: Maxim Cournoyer @ 2017-08-29 23:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-guix
Hi!
I asked this question on the freenode #icecat channel yesterday, but
didn't get a response, so I'm forwarding it here.
Is there a way to install dictionaries for IceCat? When I right-click in
a text box and choose 'Add Dictionaries', it brings me here:
http://dictionaries.mozdev.org/. If I then go to the installation page
and try to install the French (France) dictionary, I get: The add-on
downloaded from this site could not be installed because it appears to
be corrupt.
IIUC, the spell checker used by Icecat is Hunspell. We don't seem to
have any hunspell dictionary packaged in Guix. Has anyone got a hold of
this?
Maxim
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* Re: How to add spell checking dictionaries to Icecat
2017-08-29 23:03 How to add spell checking dictionaries to Icecat Maxim Cournoyer
@ 2017-09-03 20:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-03 20:50 ` ng0
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From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2017-09-03 20:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Maxim Cournoyer; +Cc: help-guix
Hi Maxim,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
> I asked this question on the freenode #icecat channel yesterday, but
> didn't get a response, so I'm forwarding it here.
>
> Is there a way to install dictionaries for IceCat? When I right-click in
> a text box and choose 'Add Dictionaries', it brings me here:
> http://dictionaries.mozdev.org/. If I then go to the installation page
> and try to install the French (France) dictionary, I get: The add-on
> downloaded from this site could not be installed because it appears to
> be corrupt.
>
> IIUC, the spell checker used by Icecat is Hunspell. We don't seem to
> have any hunspell dictionary packaged in Guix. Has anyone got a hold of
> this?
That’s a very good question. I’ve noticed before that that
spell-checking in IceCat didn’t work and that’s a serious problem from a
UX viewpoint.
Looking at Hunspell’s home page, it looks like we should build
dictionary packages from what’s at
<https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/>, no?
Ludo’.
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* Re: How to add spell checking dictionaries to Icecat
2017-09-03 20:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
@ 2017-09-03 20:50 ` ng0
2017-09-04 9:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: ng0 @ 2017-09-03 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ludovic Courtès; +Cc: help-guix
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Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.1K bytes:
> Hi Maxim,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > I asked this question on the freenode #icecat channel yesterday, but
> > didn't get a response, so I'm forwarding it here.
> >
> > Is there a way to install dictionaries for IceCat? When I right-click in
> > a text box and choose 'Add Dictionaries', it brings me here:
> > http://dictionaries.mozdev.org/. If I then go to the installation page
> > and try to install the French (France) dictionary, I get: The add-on
> > downloaded from this site could not be installed because it appears to
> > be corrupt.
> >
> > IIUC, the spell checker used by Icecat is Hunspell. We don't seem to
> > have any hunspell dictionary packaged in Guix. Has anyone got a hold of
> > this?
>
> That’s a very good question. I’ve noticed before that that
> spell-checking in IceCat didn’t work and that’s a serious problem from a
> UX viewpoint.
>
> Looking at Hunspell’s home page, it looks like we should build
> dictionary packages from what’s at
> <https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/>, no?
>
> Ludo’.
From what I remember with my more recent chats with Jookia, we
are also supposed to push for "ASPELL_DICTIONARY_PATH" and similar
one for HUNSPELL or something like that in applications.
The default is to just bundle/copy in as far as I remember it.
I can ask Jookia again how we as Nix and Guix are supposed to proceed
from what Jookia learned. There were some relevant Nix bugtickets if
you want to look into that.
On a related note: do we not need the language packs of Icecat?
So far I have almost every system in english, but I was wondering
this since I know mozilla and fork projects around them work
with language packs for the software builds.
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* Re: How to add spell checking dictionaries to Icecat
2017-09-03 20:50 ` ng0
@ 2017-09-04 9:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-16 21:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
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From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2017-09-04 9:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Maxim Cournoyer; +Cc: help-guix
Hey ng0,
ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.1K bytes:
>> Hi Maxim,
>>
>> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>> > I asked this question on the freenode #icecat channel yesterday, but
>> > didn't get a response, so I'm forwarding it here.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to install dictionaries for IceCat? When I right-click in
>> > a text box and choose 'Add Dictionaries', it brings me here:
>> > http://dictionaries.mozdev.org/. If I then go to the installation page
>> > and try to install the French (France) dictionary, I get: The add-on
>> > downloaded from this site could not be installed because it appears to
>> > be corrupt.
>> >
>> > IIUC, the spell checker used by Icecat is Hunspell. We don't seem to
>> > have any hunspell dictionary packaged in Guix. Has anyone got a hold of
>> > this?
>>
>> That’s a very good question. I’ve noticed before that that
>> spell-checking in IceCat didn’t work and that’s a serious problem from a
>> UX viewpoint.
>>
>> Looking at Hunspell’s home page, it looks like we should build
>> dictionary packages from what’s at
>> <https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/>, no?
>>
>> Ludo’.
>
> From what I remember with my more recent chats with Jookia, we
> are also supposed to push for "ASPELL_DICTIONARY_PATH" and similar
> one for HUNSPELL or something like that in applications.
Aspell is “under control” so to speak, but Hunspell I have no idea.
> The default is to just bundle/copy in as far as I remember it.
>
> I can ask Jookia again how we as Nix and Guix are supposed to proceed
> from what Jookia learned. There were some relevant Nix bugtickets if
> you want to look into that.
Nixpkgs gets its dictionaries from <http://wordlist.sf.net>,
<http://www.dicollecte.org>, and others sources:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/dictionaries.nix
We should just follow their lead.
> On a related note: do we not need the language packs of Icecat?
> So far I have almost every system in english, but I was wondering
> this since I know mozilla and fork projects around them work
> with language packs for the software builds.
Good question, I don’t know.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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