On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 16:24, Etienne Tourigny wrote: > Hi to all. > > Billy's comments made me think of a hybrid solution. > > Right now the "active" languages (in the document) are the ones that > have been "enabled" in the Prefs. Before you would select the "enabled" > in the prefs. and you could select "active" languages in Edit->SCL. > > What if you could "enable" various languages (ex. for me American > English and French) and select a "default" for editing. Then in the > document you could select ONE of the "enabled" languages as the "active" > and it would be initially the "default" one. > > To me it doesn't make much sense to select multiple "active" languages > for spell checking in a particular document. This can cause errors and > would add new words to multiple languages. What I did in the previous > version of evo was Select French as "active" and when I wanted to > compose a message in English I had to de-select French and then select > English. Instead I could just select English and French would be > de-selected. > > So Anna's statement "2) The ability to choose which of the spell > checking languages *already enabled in the settings dialog* are used for > spell checking any particular mail." > would make sense to me if it read "The ability to choose ONE of the > spelling languages *already selected in the settings dialog* IS used for > [...]" > > As for implementing this, one would have to: > > 1) add an option for the "default" language in the prefs. > 2) the list in Edit->SCL would be made of the languages "enabled" in the > prefs. > 3) only one element in the list in Edit->SCL would be active at a time > > > Make any sense? Thanks for reading so far...
Makes sense to me - especially as this was pretty much how things were in 1.2.1... I still wonder why that behavior was changed, when it was so obviously The Way To Do It Right(tm) :-) / Carsten _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
