Re: desktop-devel-list digest, Vol 1 #666 - 7 msgs

[Paolo Maggi <maggi athena polito it>]

Hi Jody,

> Using atk would be interesting, and would provide incentive to
> implement the interfaces.  

Yep, I like very much the Bill's idea.

> However, it only solves part of the
> problem.  Management of the dictionary and dialogs to handle the
> corections are where the majority of the work is going to go.  

I have already done part of this work in gedit HEAD in a generic way. 

> It may be a touch premature to base the spell checking on editable
> fields.  

My solution is not based on editable fields. 

> There are alot of things that could use spell checking that
> don't have an editable field to edit.
> eg
>     spell checking a region in a spreadsheet.  There
>     is no single field to check.

All you need is to send a sequence of words to the spell checker.

Ciao,
Paolo

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