Allow for spellchecking in more than one language

[David Prieto <frandavid100 gmail com>]

Hi,

I have recently opened this bug in language-selector in Ubuntu Launchpad. I didn't know whether that was the right place or not, and thought this mailing list was a good place to get my suggestion seen.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4160312#post4160312


>     I'm a Spanish speaker and so is everyone else who uses my computer, so I like my system to be in Spanish. I and my bunch just feel more comfortable that way.
>     
>     However, I often find myself doing stuff in English, like posting to these forums, chatting on IRC or taking notes in Tomboy. What's more, I often have to switch between both languages once and again.
>     
>     I wish there was an easy method to select one (or better, more than one) spell dictionaries that were independent of your system language.

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7199/pantallazo1ob7.png


>     I have made a mockup how how this idea could be implemented: the interface of the language selector would be the same, only with a second "spell check" column. Only languages with their first column checked (that is, installed languages) would have their second column available, all others would have the second checkbox greyed out.
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>     In the mockup English, Esperanto and Estonian are installed but only English and Estonian have spell checking activated. Esperanto is available as a system language but words won't be checked in Esperanto. About Zdongkha and Faroese, they're not even installed so the spellcheck checkbox is greyed out.
>     
>     By default, only the default language would be checked for spellcheck. But the user could easily check other languages. 

What do you think of it?