[KDE] Spell checking in Falkon?

[bendy]

Has anyone managed to get spell checking working in the Falkon browser?

I've tried following the instructions on the Falkon web site https://userbase.kde.org/Falkon#Spell_Check but I don't seem to have the qwebengine_convert_dict utility that it says comes comes with QtWebEngine. I can't find any Ubuntu package that installs qwebengine_convert_dict.

Thanks!

[chimak111]

Could you provide the exact commands you ran and what the exact responses were?

I'm getting:

$ locate .dic | grep -i hunspell
/usr/share/hunspell/en_US.dic
$ qwebengine_convert_dict /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.dic $HOME/Desktop/en_US.bdic
qwebengine_convert_dict: command not found
$

Maybe one needs to install qtwebengine5-dev-tools? Let's wait for more knowledgeable opinions before installing anything with "-dev-tools" in the package name

Yet another edit: see https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal-up...tools/filelist

/usr/lib/qt5/bin/qwebengine_convert_dict
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qwebengine_convert_dict
/usr/share/doc/qtwebengine5-dev-tools/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/qtwebengine5-dev-tools/copyright

[bendy]

Thanks chimak111 ! That put me on the right track. Yes, you need to install the dev tools package as you suggested, which provides qwebengine_convert_dict. However that file location didn't seem to be in my executable path and wouldn't run straight away, and I also had to sudo to run it.

In the end this got it working:

cd /usr/lib/qt5/bin/
sudo ./qwebengine_convert_dict /usr/share/hunspell/en_GB.dic /usr/share/qt5/qtwebengine_dictionaries/en_GB.bdic

That converted the dictionary and put it in the correct directory, and then I could enable it in Falkon settings.

Thanks again!

[chimak111]

My main browser is Brave and, as the Falkon wiki mentions, Falkon uses the same type of (Chromium) dictionary format. So, I could get by without installing the dev tools package. I just ran
sudo cp $HOME/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Dictionaries/*.bdic /usr/share/qt5/qtwebengine_dictionaries/ (after creating the /qtwebengine_dictionaries/ subfolder).

Since Brave is my main browser,
sudo ln -s $HOME/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Dictionaries/*.bdic /usr/share/qt5/qtwebengine_dictionaries/ makes more sense.