Re: Spell checking with Gspell

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2016.06.30 12:49, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi Peter:
>
> Am 29.06.16 02:43 schrieb(en) Peter Bloomfield:
> > GtkSpell, which Balsa has used to provide inline spell checking, is  
> > not actively maintained, and can be replaced with Gspell[1] with no  
> > loss of functionality. Gspell is essentially the Gedit spell  
> > checker, and is also used by LaTeXila.
>
> That sounds like an interesting alternative!  However, it doesn't  
> seem to be very popular yet; Debian has packages for sid (unstable)  
> and stretch (testing) only, Ubuntu even not for yakkety.  So I  
> *think* those will rely on GtkSpell for the time being.  Apart from  
> the fact that Debian/Ubuntu still ship with Balsa 2.4.12... :-(
Gentoo has gspell 0.1.2 as stable and 0.2.2, 0.2.3, and 1.0.2 as  
testing versions, so I'll try to find time to give it a test.
> > Support for using Gspell as a replacement for GtkSpell has been  
> > added to the gtk3 branch. The configure option "--with-gtkspell" has  
> > been replaced by "--with-spell-checker=(no|gtkspell|gspell)", with  
> > the default still being "no".
>
> Nice!
>
> > Gspell provides both inline spell checking and a spell-check dialog,  
> > much like Balsa's own dialog, which is implemented when neither  
> > Gspell nor Gtkspell is configured. If there is interest, Balsa could  
> > use Gspell to offer both inline checking and the dialog, but we'd  
> > need to have a discussion about the UI for supporting that; the  
> > current UI has only one option, which toggles inline checking if  
> > either Gspell or Gtkspell is used, or pops up the dialog if neither  
> > is configured.
>
> IMO, the inline spell checker is absolutely sufficient.  Just my  
> €0.01, though...
I agree, although I'm not particularly committed to either approach.

Jack