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

[Martin Soto <soto informatik uni-kl de>]

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 07:42 +0200, Chipzz wrote:
> 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.

Well, actually, the problem wouldn't be solved if you ran your desktop
in Dutch, because you also write English. In my case, I'm a Colombian
who lives in Germany and still uses English almost daily. I write
Spanish (Gaim, Tomboy, Evolution), German (mainly Evolution, but also
OpenOffice) and English (Evolution, Tomboy, OpenOffice and almost
everything else).

I think that having to write in at least two languages on a regular
basis is a common situation for many users, that should be taken into
account not only by libraries like gtkspell but by applications. For
example, I'd really love having a combo box in Evolution composer to
switch languages quickly (the current menu is awkward because you have
to open it twice: once to deactivate the current language and once to
activate the new one). Automatic selection of the language based on the
recipients list would be even better.

Also, being able to separately set the language for Tomboy notes would
be really great, making a nice application even nicer.

Cheers,

M. S.