Hello Etienne, Thank you very for writing.
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 16:44, Etienne Tourigny wrote: > Well, I just updated to 1.2.2 and noticed something sad :( Oh dear. I am sorry that this change is causing you inconvenience; rest assured that the menu isn't necessarily gone for good, and that your mail provides me with very useful data to use in figuring out how/if the menu should reappear. > Is it just me or the choice of Spell-languages in the composer window > (Edit->Spell Check Languages) has gone? Yes, indeed, that menu is gone. We removed it for the moment, because we were receiving complaints from people who had difficulty in figuring out the interaction between the languages in that menu, and in the settings dialog. To explain: In its former incarnation, the Edit->SCL menu contained a list of all of the spell checking languages that you had installed, and they were all selectable, regardless of their status (enabled or not enabled) in the settings dialog. This meant that you were able to change the list of enabled spell checking languages in two places: the menu, and the settings dialog. The problem that this caused is that the scope of the menu became unclear. (Did it apply just to the current mail? To all future mails? Should it really be able to override the settings you specified in the Settings dialog?) To complicate things, if we decided to make the Edit->SCL menu change the list of languages in the Settings dialog, then the scope of that menu would be different than the scope of the other submenus in the "Edit" menu. So, since the menu had not been in Evolution for very long (only since 1.2 or so), we decided for the time being to remove it, until we had time to think about how the interaction between it and settings dialog should work, and to see how people reacted. :) It was our hope that in the vast majority of cases, languages would not contain enough overlapping words to cause any significant problem for a user who had more than one spell checking language enabled. (Indeed, I have spell checking in English and Italian enabled, and have been fortunate not to run into any problems myself.) For this reason, I am very interested in your next comment: > I use it a lot since by default I use French and sometimes I need just > English (like this message for example). Now I activated both in the > Prefs but I can still make errors depending on the language I am > writing. Can you explain this with an example? > I was also wondering if you are using two languages and add a word to > the dictionary, which one is it added to? That I don't know. Radek Doulik (psst, hey Radek!) should be able to tell us, though. Thanks again for your mail. Rest assured that we are definitely considering different solution to the problem, including adding the menu again and only making languages enabled in the settings dialog be selectable in the Edit menu. Do you think this would better suit your needs? Looking forward to hearing back from you, Anna -- Anna Marie Dirks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
