From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: How to add spell checking dictionaries to Icecat Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 11:45:37 +0200 Message-ID: <878thu6blq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pobef033.fsf@gmail.com> <87d177sfjk.fsf@gnu.org> <20170903205005.qdtswvafsbyma2ib@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53243) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1donwu-0003HM-OF for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2017 05:45:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1donwp-0007ry-Oa for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2017 05:45:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170903205005.qdtswvafsbyma2ib@abyayala> (ng0@infotropique.org's message of "Sun, 3 Sep 2017 20:50:05 +0000") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Maxim Cournoyer Cc: help-guix Hey ng0, ng0 skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s transcribed 1.1K bytes: >> Hi Maxim, >>=20 >> Maxim Cournoyer skribis: >>=20 >> > 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? >>=20 >> That=E2=80=99s a very good question. I=E2=80=99ve noticed before that t= hat >> spell-checking in IceCat didn=E2=80=99t work and that=E2=80=99s a seriou= s problem from a >> UX viewpoint. >>=20 >> Looking at Hunspell=E2=80=99s home page, it looks like we should build >> dictionary packages from what=E2=80=99s at >> , no? >>=20 >> Ludo=E2=80=99. > > 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 =E2=80=9Cunder control=E2=80=9D 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 , , and others sources: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/libraries/h= unspell/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=E2=80=99t know. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.