Re: Moving spellcheckers into the Gtk+ stack

[Paolo Maggi <paolo maggi polito it>]

Hi Nathan,
	thank for you great work on gtkspell that has been very important for the implementation and maintenance of the the
gedit spell checker plugin.

> GtkSpell3, which has never been released, has a number of improvements
> over GtkSpell2:
>
> - Uses Enchant as the back-end dictionary provider.
> - Can query enchant for list of available languages.

The gedit's fork of gtkspell has these features.

> - Can load multiple dictionaries simultaneously and check words across
> the union of those dictionaries.  Per-dictionary suggestion menus appear
> as sub-menus of the context menu.

Missing in gedit code (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314080)

> - Uses glib for smarter default dictionary activation at startup
> (g_get_language_names()) and for gettext initialization (gi18n-lib.h).

gedit has this...

> Things I had planned to do but never did:
> - GObjectification 

and this...

> - Refactoring to separate the backend from the textview spell checker to
> allow sharing of the backend among multiple textview checkers and
> possibly spell-entry.

and this.

Ciao,
Paolo