Hi,
Currently, in Epiphany we allow the user to enable spell checking, but
it just silently fails if the appropriate dictionaries are not
installed. I suggested that we should install missing dictionaries with
PackageKit, and Carlos suggested that dictionary installation should be
handled by the application and not WebKit.
To do this, I suggest the following new API in [1]:
/**
* webkit_web_context_get_available_spell_checking_languages:
* @context: a #WebKitWebContext
*
* Get the list of languages with installed spell checking
dictionaries. Any
* dictionary recognized by Enchant will be detected.
*
* Returns: (array zero-terminated=1) (element-type utf8) (transfer
full): A
* %NULL-terminated array of languages if available, or %NULL
otherwise.
* Free with g_strfreev().
*
* Since: 2.8
*/
gchar**
webkit_web_context_get_available_spell_checking_languages(WebKitWebContext*
context)
Then in Epiphany we'll just search that list for whatever languages the
user has enabled and install the relevant hunspell/myspell dictionary
(/usr/share/myspell/xx_XX.dic) with PackageKit if not present.
An alternative would be to not provide any new API and have Epiphany
search for the presence of the dictionaries manually. The disadvantage
of this approach is that it would fail to detect Enchant dictionaries
not provided by hunspell/myspell that are already installed. I'm not
sure how common those are.
[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140638
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