954301 - no way to change the spellcheck dictionary

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 868 by Michal Stanke <michal.stanke AT mikk.cz> at 2011-06-29 12:30:00 UTC ***

In IB I miss a possibility to change the spellcheck dictionary.
I suggest to make it like in TB5 = drop-down and a link to AIO (https://addons.instantbird.org/instantbird/browse/type:3).

Comment 1

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 868 at 2011-06-29 13:26:36 UTC ***

I would really like if dictionnaries could install themselves without a restart! :)

Comment 2

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 868 at 2012-04-17 20:32:44 UTC ***

Confirming after discussing with flo over IRC.

Comment 3

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 868 at 2013-02-02 17:39:59 UTC ***

Having several dictionaries installed will give a sub-menu in the context menu of the input box now which allows to switch languages easily.

Setting to RESOLVED FIXED. I could look up the (toolkit) bug that changed this if wanted.

Comment 4

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 868 at 2013-02-02 22:39:15 UTC ***

The problem here is that you don't have the "install more dictionaries..." menu item until you have installed more than one dictionary...
There's absolutely nothing in the UI that suggests it's possible to have more than one dictionary installed.

Comment 5

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 868 at 2013-02-03 00:25:10 UTC ***

We currently don't even have this "Add more dictionaries..." menu item when other dictionaries are already installed. Firefox has it and I haven't figured out the problem on our side yet.

The place where we can make the language sub-menu appear regardless of the number of dictionaries found is in the textbox binding (remove the check on numdicts):

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content/widgets/textbox.xml#623

(this._setMenuItemVisibility("spell-dictionaries", enabled && numdicts > 1);)

Comment 6

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.