Re: gtkspell (was Re: Announcing: Project Ridley)

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

Something that really bothers me about gtkspell too is the lack of an
option in the popup to change the language. While by default it uses
your desktop language (I think), which is something that makes sense,
there are a lot of non-native English speakers running their desktops in
English (I, for example, am a native Dutch speaker, but I really hate to
run my desktop in Dutch).
This is a real annoyance in gaim for example: it labels allmost all of
the words as incorrect.

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Alex Graveley wrote:

> I'm all for spellchecking in Gtk, but GtkSpell has been nothing but
> trouble for me in Tomboy.  It still doesn't handle multiple textbuffers
> sharing a tag table (which means that rich copy/paste doesn't work), and
> has some serious memory leaks (though this may be due in part to pspell).
>
> -Alex
>
> Mike Hearn wrote:
> > Yes, it's yet another "me too" post, this time for gtkspell.
> >
> > Spelling checker support is widely used in many apps, and from my POV is a
> > huge pain because gtkspell is a very common failed dependency for
> > autopackages. We provide tools to make weak linking against this library
> > simple but a few projects for whatever mysterious reasons they have refuse
> > to use them.
> >
> > Being able to guarantee the presence of GtkSpell by depending on GTK+
> > would be wonderful.
> >
> > Last time I asked about this, Owen indicated he didn't think it belonged
> > in GTK+ but maybe this Project Ridely means a change in policy?
> >
> > thanks -mike
> >
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kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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