Re: gtkspell (was Re: Announcing: Project Ridley)

2005-09-23 Thread Evan Martin
Hi folks, GtkSpell lacks some features and I've been aware of the lack for years -- even since the GTK < 2 days. I haven't had the time to work on GtkSpell and so finally, rather than stifling it by hanging on too tightly, I found a new maintainer, who has done a great job of making incremental r

Re: gtkspell (was Re: Announcing: Project Ridley)

2006-01-19 Thread Alex Graveley
I'm all for spellchecking in Gtk, but GtkSpell has been nothing but trouble for me in Tomboy. It still doesn't handle multiple textbuffers sharing a tag table (which means that rich copy/paste doesn't work), and has some serious memory leaks (though this may be due in part to pspell). -Alex

Re: gtkspell (was Re: Announcing: Project Ridley)

2006-01-19 Thread Steven Garrity
Mike Hearn wrote: Yes, it's yet another "me too" post, this time for gtkspell. For what it's worth, work on gtkspell3 has begun which will "replaces ASpell/PSpell with Enchant as the underlying spelling provider." [1] Steven Garrity [1] http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/ _

Re: gtkspell (was Re: Announcing: Project Ridley)

2006-01-19 Thread Chipzz
I'm not a Gtk+ developer, but I think one of the criteria for being considered is: doesn't introduce a new library dependency, or maybe it can, if it really makes sense. Gtk+ depending on a spell checking library hardly makes sense, however. On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Mike Hearn wrote: > Yes, it's yet

Re: gtkspell (was Re: Announcing: Project Ridley)

2006-01-19 Thread Chipzz
Something that really bothers me about gtkspell too is the lack of an option in the popup to change the language. While by default it uses your desktop language (I think), which is something that makes sense, there are a lot of non-native English speakers running their desktops in English (I, for e

Re: gtkspell (was Re: Announcing: Project Ridley)

2006-01-19 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 8/27/05, Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not a Gtk+ developer, but I think one of the criteria for being > considered is: doesn't introduce a new library dependency, or maybe it > can, if it really makes sense. Gtk+ depending on a spell checking > library hardly makes sense, however. I

Re: gtkspell (was Re: Announcing: Project Ridley)

2006-01-19 Thread Dominic Lachowicz
On 1/19/06, Matthias Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/27/05, Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not a Gtk+ developer, but I think one of the criteria for being > > considered is: doesn't introduce a new library dependency, or maybe it > > can, if it really makes sense. Gtk+ depending

Re: gtkspell (was Re: Announcing: Project Ridley)

2006-01-19 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 07:42:35AM +0200, Chipzz wrote: > Something that really bothers me about gtkspell too is the lack of an > option in the popup to change the language. While by default it uses > your desktop language (I think), which is something that makes sense, > there are a lot of non-na