Re: Moving spellcheckers into the Gtk+ stack

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

5 dec 2006 kl. 20.01 skrev Behdad Esfahbod:

> Here is a proposal:
>
>   - Move Enchant into glib as a new module called gspell.  Enchant  
> is a
> small client-side library that loads modules that interface with
> spell-checking backends, like aspell, ispell, MySpell, etc.  It's
> written by Dom, uses glib, and KDE recently forked it and called it
> kspell2 or something.  So, I don't think it has a lot more  
> opportunities
> as a fd.o project, and all its users are using the GNOME stack  
> already.
> Other projects (OO.o, Mozilla), prefer to interface directly with
> backends or reinvent their own wrapper.  So, by moving Enchant to  
> glib,
> we bring spell-checking to the entire GNOME stack for free.  This is
> quite in par with the gregex and gvfs efforts going on.  Dom is pretty
> positive about this.
>
>   - Port automatic spell-checking from libsexy and GtkSpell to Gtk+
> editable text widgets.
>
>   - Add properties and Gtk settings for turning on/off spell-checking
> globally, setting default languages, etc.  Possibly adding context  
> menu
> entries too.
>
>   - Develop a simple tool for control-center to adjust above settings.
>
>   - If popular enough, move some spell-checking dialogs from Gedit or
> other implementations to Gtk+.
>
> Comments?

The proposal makes a lot of sense at first glance and having this  
directly in Gtk+ is something I've personally wanted for a long time.

Rock on!

Cheers,
  Mikael Hallendal
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