Re: How to add spell checking dictionaries to Icecat

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hey ng0,

ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.1K bytes:
>> Hi Maxim,
>> 
>> Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> 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’.