Re: [Evolution] Dictionaries

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

On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 22:23, guenther wrote:
> tweaking( GUI );
>
> Just came around this thread...
>
> > > 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...
>
> Nope, that doesn't make sense to me. As a non-english native speaker,
> some language mixes come in handy -- especially when related to Computer
> sciences...
>
> - my private mails are normally just german
> - posting on english speaking mailing lists only need english
> - posting on german mailing lists sometimes screw up:
> Even in my local Linux User Group mailing list there are now and then
> quotes from the man-pages (in english).
>
> Does it make sense, to mark the whole qoute as false? ;-)
>
>
> I have English and German enabled and really love it, not to have switch
> languages for every mail. So I would prefer, to have the ability to
> enable more than one language in the composer.
>
> btw: There should be no confusion, a checker means, it is not the only
> possible option at a time.

That should be fairly easy to cater for as well: simply change
"language" to "languages" in:

> > 1) add an option for the "default" language in the prefs.

Evo 1.2.1 had the multiple-languages-in-single-message option as well.

/ Carsten