Hi Olivier, Thanks for the bug report. It has been a while since that patch was landed so my memory may be a bit rusty, but I don't believe we considered the use case of Linux distributions side-loading dictionaries in this way...
Would it be a useful work-around to convert these dictionaries to the [WebExtension dictionary format](https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/dictionaries)? I haven't tested this myself, but at least in Firefox it is [possible to side-load extensions](https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish /distribute-sideloading/#standard-extension-folders), so perhaps installing such extensions to a location like `/usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/{uuid}` may be a useful workaround? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1847247 Title: External dictionaries are not loaded Status in Mozilla Thunderbird: New Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On Ubuntu Eoan and most recent Thunderbird, the external Hunspell dictionaries are not available anymore on Thunderbird for spellcheck. The symlink is still in place: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 dec 15 2017 dictionaries -> ../../share/hunspell But data doesn't get loaded for some reason. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/1847247/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
