enchant custom words are not being used

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12419

the bug is fixed by the upstream change there, http://bugzilla.abisource.com/attachment.cgi?id=5068&action=view

The corresponding bug is http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12350

The issue will be fixed next cycle and could be a sru candidate

Accepted enchant into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

The new libenchant with the fix works well for me.

The previous library emptied out the user dictionary. The new library, with the fix, keeps the user dictionary.

This bug was fixed in the package enchant - 1.5.0-0ubuntu3

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enchant (1.5.0-0ubuntu3) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_upstream_change_dont_truncated_custom_dictionnary.dpatch:
    - upstream change to fix incorrect dictionnary checking leading to clear
      the custom dictionnary entries on start (lp: #446230)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:29:56 +0100

Copied karmic-proposed to lucid.

ok so i have karmic proposed enabled and system fully updated.

yet if i add a word in OO.writer, it is still marked as unknown in gedit.
if i add a word in gedit it is still marked as unknown in pidgin.

So, the fix didnt work for me?

the current comment neither describes the issue there nor the testcase

to be clear issues between softwares would need debugging, the bug is about adding a word to the enchant dictionnary

"yet if i add a word in OO.writer, it is still marked as unknown in gedit. if i add a word in gedit it is still marked as unknown in pidgin."

The above would be expected behaviour, since it is about adding words to the custom dictionary. And since each applications creates its own custom dictionary, and since these dictionaries are not shared, that means that the above behaviour is expected and normal.

"yet if i add a word in OO.writer, it is still marked as unknown in gedit. if i add a word in gedit it is still marked as unknown in pidgin."

hmm actually this was the issue that led me to file this bug. should i file bugs for each application then for my above problem?

also wasnt it a intrepid goal to have all the dictionaries/spell checkers consolidated,etc.
it really doesnt make sense if the custom dictionary is not share.

Each application can provide his own user dictionary. I am not sure whether there is a standard location where enchant places its user dictionaries, but probably there is since you filed a bug about some place in .config/enchant. Applications that use enchant could then be asked to use that standard location rather than there own location. I program bibledit, and that puts the user dictionary in ~/.bibledit/projects/<projectname>/data/shared_dictionary. Each project has its own dictionary location. Supposedly openoffice, pidgin, and gedit have their own locations too. Probably to file a feature request for each application to use standard locations could do what you are looking for. Or to use flexible locations such that can be set by the user.

This bug was fixed in the package enchant - 1.5.0-0ubuntu3

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enchant (1.5.0-0ubuntu3) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_upstream_change_dont_truncated_custom_dictionnary.dpatch:
    - upstream change to fix incorrect dictionnary checking leading to clear
      the custom dictionnary entries on start (lp: #446230)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:29:56 +0100