On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 22:23, guenther wrote: > tweaking( GUI ); > > Just came around this thread... > > > > 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... > > Nope, that doesn't make sense to me. As a non-english native speaker, > some language mixes come in handy -- especially when related to Computer > sciences... > > - my private mails are normally just german > - posting on english speaking mailing lists only need english > - posting on german mailing lists sometimes screw up: > Even in my local Linux User Group mailing list there are now and then > quotes from the man-pages (in english). > > Does it make sense, to mark the whole qoute as false? ;-) > > > I have English and German enabled and really love it, not to have switch > languages for every mail. So I would prefer, to have the ability to > enable more than one language in the composer. > > btw: There should be no confusion, a checker means, it is not the only > possible option at a time.
That should be fairly easy to cater for as well: simply change "language" to "languages" in: > > 1) add an option for the "default" language in the prefs. Evo 1.2.1 had the multiple-languages-in-single-message option as well. / Carsten _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
