Re: [Evolution-hackers] Future of Evolution Spellchecking?

[Harish Krishnaswamy <kharish novell com>]

Andre,

  
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 14:21 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:

> so would that patch be accepted? any comments or thoughts on this? and
> by whom would it be accepted, because who maintains gnome-spell anymore?
> i know that radek was the last person working on gnome-spell (and harish
> as evolution maintainer told me to mail him directly), but i have not
> received an answer yet (it has been three days), and the string
> announcement period is getting closer (yes, the names of the languages
> have to be translated).

> so can someone assure me that there will be a gnome-spell release for
> 2.14 including this patch if i would provide it?
> otherwise it's just worthless and people keep waiting for spellchecking
> support for their language.
> 
> keep in mind that it's ridiculous to have the entire gnome-desktop
> translated to xhosa, but not being able to have xhosa spellchecking in
> gnome-desktop's mailer[7], to name one example.
> keep in mind that we are excluding many, many potential customers out
> there (...this one goes out to novell ;-).
This is more about gnome-spell and I am not qualified to answer that.
But I agree it has a huge impact on Evolution users. I'll do a follow-up
on this. 


> in a long run (gnome 2.16?), gnome-spell should switch to use enchant
> instead of aspell. enchant is capable of having multiple  backends loaded
> at once (see "backends" section at [8]), including aspell.
> but would anyone work on that port?
> 
It is on the table - anyone ? :-)

Harish