* kobi zamir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070415 17:23]: > >Why can't this be done by simply calling the right program in kmail? > > kmail use old kde3 speller that is hard coded to use "hspell" const > string as name for a Hebrew speller. When they will move to kde4, this > problem will not exist anymore, and multi lingual spelling will not be > possible :-( at all. multispell is the only utility I know of that do > multi lingual spelling.
Then the bug and the fix should be in kde and not in hspell, this is a temporary fix for an issue that is not related to hspell. HSpell provides the utility for multi-language spelling, the fix is in kde/kmail and not in making hspell an alternative. If alternatives is the way to go then one should lobby the kde maintainers (in debian or outside) to use and support a generic spelling program that can work through alternatives, but that should happen in a global context and not in hspell. The same issue will exist for other languages and doing a workaround in hspell is not the way to go. > >IMO it is an issue with kmail calling the wrong program for you rather > >than a need for using hspell through an alternatives mechanism. > > IMO using hspell throw the alternatives mechanism is harmless to most > users. It can help other users to take advantage of the unique > multispell utility automatically, any user in their system will get > multispell automatically when invoking hspell. Making hspell an alternative is something we will need to support for a long time and migrating to it and from it will be a lot of headache. And it's not even the right place to fix this. Providing a patch to kmail to use multispell is the right way. Baruch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]