Re: Moving spellcheckers into the Gtk+ stack

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Dec 8, 2006, at 12:41 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> ...
> 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
> ...

Ideally Epiphany's language preferences wouldn't be in Epiphany, they'd 
be in a system-wide preferences tool (as they are for Windows Internet 
Explorer with the "Regional Settings" control panel, and for Safari and 
other Mac browsers with the "International" preferences pane). The 
language list it configured would also determine the default for 
Totem's subtitle/audio language, and for any other application that 
needs to know your preferred languages (such as an ISV's app that ships 
with its own translations).

Totem would still need an interface for changing preferred language 
on-the-fly, but this would likely be a menu or submenu (as it is in 
Windows Media Player and Apple DVD Player, for example), rather than 
any sort of standard widget for embedding in a dialog.

Cheers
--
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/