Re: Spell checking in GIO
- From: "A. Walton" <awalton gnome org>
- To: Christian Hergert <christian hergert me>
- Cc: gtk-devel-list <gtk-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Spell checking in GIO
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 10:12:28 -0700
This argument doesn't convince me much. If we want Search
in GNOME Shell to be spellchecked, you could always just link to
enchant for that. Clutter applications are a bit of an odd case anyways,
since Clutter kinda already wants to be GDK 4.0, which only reinforces
my argument that this really should be in GDK.
The problem for me is that the only sane way to put this into
GIO is to add an extension point and load in the spell checking module
at runtime (which pretty much everyone agrees in the thread). The
problem with that approach is that one of the reasons cited many moons
ago for not having a GPlatform/GDesktop/GLivesBetweenGlibandGtk library is so that we don't have to load a ton of libraries on start.
GDK, on the other hand, already links to the necessary
dependencies on Windows and OS X and we'd simply be adding a singular
hard dependency on enchant (or reinventing it ourselves), which most
distros aren't going to complain about (they already package enchant),
most users aren't going to complain about (except the users that hate
features; I'm certain we can get some GNOME Haters in on this), and most
developers aren't going to complain about (since they're probably
already using an Egg'd version of SexySpellEntry or linking their
applications to enchant anyways).
It's going to be hard to convince me that this shouldn't live
in GDK/GTK+. But I probably don't wear enough merit badges these days to
count for much.
(sorry for the resend Christian).
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