Spell checking in GNOME 2

[Paolo Maggi <maggi athena polito it>]

Hi Martin, Radek,

I'm working on a spell checker solution for gedit
(http://www.gnome.org/~paolo/screenshots/spell-checker.png) to be
included in the GNOME 2.2 releases.

Speaking on IRC with the GNOME release team, they suggested me to
contact you in order to try to join our efforts and propose a generic
spell checking solution for GNOME (to be included in libegg).
According to them (and me), it should be a gtk+/glib/gobject only
solution.

You can see my current code (partially unfinished) in gedit/plugin/spell
(CVS HEAD).

I have developed a spell checker class (whose API is quite similar to
the gnome-spell interface) called gedit-spell-checker and a generic
spell checker dialog called gedit-spell-checker-dialog.

ATM, my solution is based on pspell .12.2 but I think we should base it
on the new GNU aspell (the new API supports filters and let you manage
the personal dictionary too).

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Ciao,
Paolo

P.S. I'm planning to patch gtkspell in order to use my spell checker
class.

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