Re: [Evolution] spell checker in toolbar?

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > > Is there an easy way to add spell checking to the Composer toolbar?  I
> > > just switched my wife back to Evolution (because it's the only GUI mail
> > > client with decent Maildir support) and she's appalled that I wasn't
> > > able to give her a one-click spell check.
>
> > I don't think, this is trivially possible.
>
> What am I missing here... When I am composing an email (like right now)
> in the composition window, under the "Edit" menu I have "Spell check
> document" which is bound to the shortcut "shift+ctrl+l". So it is either
> a three fingered "click" or a pulldown and click away. This is in 1.4.6
> for sure but it has been in Evolution for a while as far as I can
> remember.
>
> If you meant you want a  "spell check now" button on the toolbar you are
> going to have to hack .xml files to tweak the menu system.

Already done. :)

> Apparently
> doable but I have never gone there.

Well, I'm not sure about that. You can tweak a lot, that's totally
right, but there definitely are limits. There are some things you just
cannot solve by hacking those xml files.


> > However, what about spell checking while writing the message? Have you
> > though about this, would this be an option?
>
> Plus as guenther mentioned you can have "spell check as you type"
> enabled, which happily is underlining misspelled words in whatever
> colour you desire (red shows up very nicely :-)

Indeed, it does. :)

Now if only it would stop spell checking my signature. And my name is
spelled correctly, too. ;-)

...guenther


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