Re: [Evolution] Changing the Spell Check color

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> When 1.4 was released, there was a bug in the spell checker that
> wouldn't allow you to change the spell check color..  There were (I
> believe) 2 ways to fix this.  First was to uncheck and recheck the
> "check spelling" option and then change the color..  I'm not sure what
> the other way was...

IIRC I had to change the value 2 times. The red color I still wanted to
use actually was set in the settings -- so I had to set it to another
value to force a change. Then I could set it back to red.

The extra step was necessary, cause when closing the settings dialog
with the same value as when starting it, nothing is written.


> I'm running 1.4.5 on Redhat 9.0 and my spell check color seems to be
> stuck as black.  This seems to disable spell checking (at least, there
> are no black squiqqles anywhere ... even when I mispell a word ...)

If you don't have enabled spell checking while tying, you have to start
spell checking manually. Even with a black color you should see the
underline.

Check the settings. Are there languages enabled? Checking while typing?
Setting and resetting the color?

 Tools / Settings / Composer Preferences / Spell Checking

The relevant GConf keys for spell checking seem to be in /GNOME/Spell/.
Check, if they do match with the desired settings.

/GNOME/Spell/languages :  The enabled languages to check against.

/GNOME/Spell/spell_error_color_{red,green,blue} :  The RGB values of the
color to underline misspelled words, split into 3 keys. A value of FF
(hex) == 255 (dec) seems to be represented with 65535 as value. Please
don't ask me why...


btw: Do you use Gnome as Dektop? If you are using KDE, maybe a not
running Gnome Settings Daemon may be the culprit.

HTH

...guenther


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