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

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

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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