Andre, On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 14:21 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> so would that patch be accepted? any comments or thoughts on this? and > by whom would it be accepted, because who maintains gnome-spell anymore? > i know that radek was the last person working on gnome-spell (and harish > as evolution maintainer told me to mail him directly), but i have not > received an answer yet (it has been three days), and the string > announcement period is getting closer (yes, the names of the languages > have to be translated). > so can someone assure me that there will be a gnome-spell release for > 2.14 including this patch if i would provide it? > otherwise it's just worthless and people keep waiting for spellchecking > support for their language. > > keep in mind that it's ridiculous to have the entire gnome-desktop > translated to xhosa, but not being able to have xhosa spellchecking in > gnome-desktop's mailer[7], to name one example. > keep in mind that we are excluding many, many potential customers out > there (...this one goes out to novell ;-). This is more about gnome-spell and I am not qualified to answer that. But I agree it has a huge impact on Evolution users. I'll do a follow-up on this. > in a long run (gnome 2.16?), gnome-spell should switch to use enchant > instead of aspell. enchant is capable of having multiple backends loaded > at once (see "backends" section at [8]), including aspell. > but would anyone work on that port? > It is on the table - anyone ? :-) Harish _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
