[ooo-build] How to set location of dictionary files

espinosa_cz espinosa_cz at centrum.cz
Mon Jul 20 14:26:41 PDT 2009


Hi guys, I have to report successful installation of you OOo build on 
Mandriva Spring 2009.1. Great job!
Well I had to remove ~/.ooo3 directory as it crashed ooo on start but 
after that it works nicely.
I'm especially delighted that your version provides KDE integration; 
Mandriva official version does not.

Everything works except spell checking. No dictionary is recognized 
after a fresh install.

I have my dictionaries in /usr/share/dict/ooo, which seems to be a 
standard location shared (potentially) more applications.
There is dictionary.lst and all *.dic, *.idx and *.aff files for en_US, 
en_GB and cs_CZ.

In Mandriva's ooo build this location is honoured and spellchecking works.
In your ooo build (Go-oo 3.1 from go-oo.mirrorbrain.org) a different 
location is used and it is quite hard to guess which.
So please how can I set go-oo to recognize /usr/share/dict/ooo directory?
Should I create a symbolic link to usr/share/dict/ooo? But from where!

Thank you
Jan


P.S.
Why there is no option to set dictionary path in Options -> 
OpenOffice.org -> Paths. It seems to be such a suitable place!
The  /usr/share/dict/ooo is shared (at least) with Firefox. Firefox 
/usr/share/dict/mozilla contains just links to /usr/share/dict/ooo.


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