hi all, i have a question for people on various linux distros. does hunspell dictionaries and thesaurus working on your box automatically? (now i mean vanilla lyx, not packages already fixed by distro packagers).
i just found that both spelling and also thesaurus dictionaries are not found automatically and the reason is that in contrast to aspell we are trying to use new idiom lyx::support::package().system_support().absFileName(),dataDirectory() for path which usually leads to something like /usr/share/lyx/ +dicts/. this looks completely wrong, since there is no reason to expect that we find hunspell dictionaries inside lyx dicrectory. is there some reason why to use system_support()? we should use some at least probable location. also the code written above makes it difficult for package maintainers to make simple patch for their distros because instead of changing one string either by ./configure --set-dictionaries or at least in source, they need to rewrite the code to get rid of 'lyx/' in path. where are spellcheck and thesaurus dictionaries on your distros? (/usr/share/myspell on gentoo) thesaurus currently doesn't now issue even any warning from debug::files level when no path is set in prefs and dictionary is not found. the hunspell debug code outputs pointers instead of language and similar, so fun to debug :) pavel
