Re: Request for UI break for Tomboy

[Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>]

A note has been added to the documentation regarding the spellcheck 
dependency on GtkSpell.

Alex Graveley wrote:
> (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
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