Spell check in kwrite editor

[newguy]

I installed the KWrite text editor on a fresh copy of MX 17. When I try to spell check a document the editor immediately reports it finished checking the document (though it clearly hasn't checked anything). When I go into the editor settings the spell check tab has a warning at the top of the page saying "No backend found for spell checking".

There are dictionaries on the system, I've got hunspell and the locale-specific dictionaries for hunspell installed. Spell check is working through LibreOffice, so it seems just KWrite is affected.

I suspect the KWrite package is missing a dependency or "recommends" for the necessary spell check backend.

Anyone have a solution for this?

[newguy]

I found the solution. The package "sonnet-plugins" needs to be installed for any KDE applications to use spell check. sonnet-plugins pulls in hspell which is also apparently required. Closing and re-launching KWrite caused sonnet-plugins to be installed and spell check worked.

Suggestion: In the future perhaps packages like KWrite and kde-plasma-desktop could pull in sonnet-plugins automatically to enable spell checking?

[Stevo]

I found the solution. The package "sonnet-plugins" needs to be installed for any KDE applications to use spell check. sonnet-plugins pulls in hspell which is also apparently required. Closing and re-launching KWrite caused sonnet-plugins to be installed and spell check worked.

Suggestion: In the future perhaps packages like KWrite and kde-plasma-desktop could pull in sonnet-plugins automatically to enable spell checking?

Great sleuthing, and thanks for the information! I'll update kde-plasma-desktop to pull that in.

[richb]

What still is not working for me is spell check as you type, although it is checked in Preferences. And hspell was listed as a Hebrew dictionary.

[newguy]

I found the solution. The package "sonnet-plugins" needs to be installed for any KDE applications to use spell check. sonnet-plugins pulls in hspell which is also apparently required. Closing and re-launching KWrite caused sonnet-plugins to be installed and spell check worked.

Suggestion: In the future perhaps packages like KWrite and kde-plasma-desktop could pull in sonnet-plugins automatically to enable spell checking?

Thanks for the information! I'll update kde-plasma-desktop to pull that in.

Just so you know, KWrite can be installed as a standalone package and also needs sonnet-plugins to perform spell check. That is to say, someone could install KWrite without having kde-plasma-desktop installed. I think sonnet-plugins should be a dependency (or at least a recommends) of the kwrite package.

[richb]

I found the solution. The package "sonnet-plugins" needs to be installed for any KDE applications to use spell check. sonnet-plugins pulls in hspell which is also apparently required. Closing and re-launching KWrite caused sonnet-plugins to be installed and spell check worked.

Suggestion: In the future perhaps packages like KWrite and kde-plasma-desktop could pull in sonnet-plugins automatically to enable spell checking?

Thanks for the information! I'll update kde-plasma-desktop to pull that in.

Just so you know, KWrite can be installed as a standalone package and also needs sonnet-plugins to perform spell check. That is to say, someone could install KWrite without having kde-plasma-desktop installed. I think sonnet-plugins should be a dependency (or at least a recommends) of the kwrite package.

That is true of many KDE apps including dolphin. It drags in KDE libraries that it needs.

[Stevo]

I found the solution. The package "sonnet-plugins" needs to be installed for any KDE applications to use spell check. sonnet-plugins pulls in hspell which is also apparently required. Closing and re-launching KWrite caused sonnet-plugins to be installed and spell check worked.

Suggestion: In the future perhaps packages like KWrite and kde-plasma-desktop could pull in sonnet-plugins automatically to enable spell checking?

Thanks for the information! I'll update kde-plasma-desktop to pull that in.

Just so you know, KWrite can be installed as a standalone package and also needs sonnet-plugins to perform spell check. That is to say, someone could install KWrite without having kde-plasma-desktop installed. I think sonnet-plugins should be a dependency (or at least a recommends) of the kwrite package.

The kde-plasma-desktop is just a metapackage that took me a couple of seconds to change and rebuild. I'll change the kwrite depends too, but that's an actual program recompile that will take a lot longer.

Or actually it should be a dependency of ktexteditor-katepart...or libkf5texteditor5.

The OP may have meant hunspell instead of hspell.