Re: remove tomboy dependency on gtkspell?

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

Sounds like a good 2.18 goal.

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 12:35 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:17 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > * Are there other modules in our release that provide similar
> >   functionality?  Then again, we did bless Gecko, even though
> >   we already had two HTML renderers.  There are a bunch of
> >   spell checking libraries out there, so if we're going to
> >   bless one, we need to think hard about it.
> 
> As far as all the spell checking libraries go, I think it's safe for us
> to bless enchant as the API for applications to use. It modularly
> supports all of the ispell/spell/etcspell... backends. And the actual
> backend in use there, may depend on what language you're writing in,
> as some don't have support for a particular language at all, while
> others may only provide overlapping support. As far as the GUI side
> goes we really only have GtkSpell and gnome-spell. As the latter uses
> bonobo, it may well be worth our time to make Evolution use GtkSpell
> instead, and work on ways to get GtkSpell into GTK+ proper, so that
> any editing widgets on the desktop, can just inherently have spell
> checking support.
> 
> -- dobey
> 
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