[Evolution] Dictionaries

["Carsten H. Pedersen" <carstenp mysql com>]

On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 16:24, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
> Hi to all.
>
> Billy's comments made me think of a hybrid solution.
>
> Right now the "active" languages (in the document) are the ones that
> have been "enabled" in the Prefs.  Before you would select the "enabled"
> in the prefs. and you could select "active" languages in Edit->SCL.
>   
> What if you could "enable" various languages (ex. for me American
> English and French) and select a "default" for editing.  Then in the
> document you could select ONE of the "enabled" languages as the "active"
> and it would be initially the "default" one.  
>
> To me it doesn't make much sense to select multiple "active" languages
> for spell checking in a particular document.  This can cause errors and
> would add new words to multiple languages.  What I did in the previous
> version of evo was Select French as "active" and when I wanted to
> compose a message in English I had to de-select French and then select
> English.  Instead I could just select English and French would be
> de-selected.  
>
> So Anna's statement "2) The ability to choose which of the spell
> checking languages *already enabled in the settings dialog* are used for
> spell checking any particular mail."
> would make sense to me if it read "The ability to choose ONE of the
> spelling languages *already selected in the settings dialog* IS used for
> [...]"
>
> As for implementing this, one would have to:
>
> 1) add an option for the "default" language in the prefs.
> 2) the list in Edit->SCL would be made of the languages "enabled" in the
> prefs.
> 3) only one element in the list in Edit->SCL would be active at a time 
>
>
> Make any sense?  Thanks for reading so far...

Makes sense to me - especially as this was pretty much how things 
were in 1.2.1... I still wonder why that behavior was changed, when
it was so obviously The Way To Do It Right(tm) :-)

/ Carsten