Re: Request for UI break for Tomboy

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

(CC'ing release-team...)

The detection is compile-time only, but making it runtime-detected is 
pretty interesting.  I'll look into it.  Though I think for this 
release, with the time constraints what they are, the currently proposed 
patch is still the way to go.

-Alex

Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 12:24 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> > --- Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com> wrote:
> > > > Speaking of this, I'm not really sure how the docs
> > > should handle it. 
> > > > Most people will have distros with gtkspell and
> > > will see the checkbox, 
> > > > but since it's optional, some people will not. 
> > > What should the docs 
> > > > reflect?
> > The docs should reflect stock gnome, while pausing to
> > note that free software's model of disparate
> > components brought together by many different distros
> > appears to make producing accurate and comprehensive
> > user documentation impossible.
>
> I don't do this often, but in this case I'm going
> to say we deviate a bit and document spell checking,
> along with a note saying that spell checking may not
> be enabled in the version the user is running, and
> maybe a note about what to do about it.
>
> Alex, the selection is compile-time, right?  So we
> couldn't just tell users to install gtkspell and
> have Tomboy pick it up?
>
> We can discuss details here, but definitely include
> spell checking in the documentation.
>
> --
> Shaun