On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:17 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > * Are there other modules in our release that provide similar > functionality? Then again, we did bless Gecko, even though > we already had two HTML renderers. There are a bunch of > spell checking libraries out there, so if we're going to > bless one, we need to think hard about it.
As far as all the spell checking libraries go, I think it's safe for us to bless enchant as the API for applications to use. It modularly supports all of the ispell/spell/etcspell... backends. And the actual backend in use there, may depend on what language you're writing in, as some don't have support for a particular language at all, while others may only provide overlapping support. As far as the GUI side goes we really only have GtkSpell and gnome-spell. As the latter uses bonobo, it may well be worth our time to make Evolution use GtkSpell instead, and work on ways to get GtkSpell into GTK+ proper, so that any editing widgets on the desktop, can just inherently have spell checking support. -- dobey _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
