Re: Moving spellcheckers into the Gtk+ stack

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 18:11 -0800, David Trowbridge wrote:
> As the author of SexySpellEntry/xchat-gnome, here are my (biased) suggestions:
<snip>
> 2. Include a standard language picker widget.  Lots of applications
> are going to want this, and it's going to become messy if people can't
> just drop in something.  This has applications beyond spell-checking
> too.  I personally feel that it's nicest to check words in the union
> of selected languages, so that users don't have to micro-manage
> settings for each UI element that they may potentially be typing in.

As far as widgets are concerned, I think we wouldn't be too far from
being able to move some widgets like the preferred languages (as used in
Epiphany's preferences, and requested for Totem[1]) to GTK+ itself.

[1]: Preferred languages for subtitles and audio tracks:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166970