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

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gmail com>]

On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 14:13 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:03:00PM -0400, Bryan Clark wrote:
> > I don't have a problem "me too"ing this request, since I think I've been
> > asking for spell checking for all text-entry widgets for the past two
> > years as well as a richer textview widget.  IMHO we should have a
> > textview widget that is good enough to pretty much replace
> > GtkHTMLEditor, with undo/redo and easy to add font, style, and color
> > widgets for text areas.  Good spell checking is just another part of
> > good text input.
> 
> We've got several of the desired widgets/gtkactions in goffice now.
>     - font face combo
>     - alignment combo and widget (including rotation)
>     - colour combo
>     - undo/redo stack
>     - image file selection
> 
> I'd also like to see some of the evince/MS Office XP widgets show up
>     - the sidebar
>     - firefox style search entry

What would really help with standard search bars/dialogs/whatever
is some interface that widgets could implement to indicate they
can be text-searched, maybe GtkTextSearchable.  This could be
implemented by GtkTextView, GtkSourceView, GtkMozEmbed, and any
other text display widgets people feel like making.

Otherwise you have to hook all sorts of boilerplate crap up to
get a stock widget to work exactly the way it's supposed to.
Surely we'd all just want to do

entry = gtk_find_entry_bar_new (GTK_TEXT_SEARCHABLE (myview));

rather than whatever crap we'd have to do otherwise.

--
Shaun