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Bug 318340 - Check Spelling hotkey is non-intuitive and inconsistant.
Check Spelling hotkey is non-intuitive and inconsistant.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GtkHtml
Classification: Other
Component: Editing
3.9.x
Other Linux
: Normal trivial
: ---
Assigned To: gtkhtml-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 223905 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 310552
 
 
Reported: 2005-10-09 17:40 UTC by Chris Skalenda
Modified: 2006-01-13 13:43 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Chris Skalenda 2005-10-09 17:40:05 UTC 
Distribution/Version: Dropline

1. Misspell something
2. Press F7 

What happens:
Spelling is not checked! User is confused!

What should happen:
Spelling is checked. User has a document that is free from spelling mistakes.

The shortcut key Shift-Ctrl-L is long (for an action that happens *often* if the
user is a bad speler and maeks typeos), unintuitive (what does Shift-Ctrl-L have
to do with spelling?), and not consistant with other GNOME-y text applications
(gedit and AbiWord both use F7).

Is there any way this could be changed to be less of a hassle to remember and use?
Comment 1 André Klapper 2005-10-09 19:16:29 UTC 
adding dependency.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2005-10-09 22:03:38 UTC 
confirming.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2005-12-31 20:40:34 UTC 
F7 is currently "CaretMode". hmm.
Comment 4 André Klapper 2005-12-31 20:43:47 UTC 
...and mozilla uses F7 for caret mode. so if changing this, we would be inconsistent with other applications as well. :-/
Comment 5 André Klapper 2005-12-31 20:57:24 UTC 
this is gtkhtml
Comment 6 André Klapper 2005-12-31 20:57:37 UTC 
*** Bug 223905 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Chris Skalenda 2005-12-31 21:56:10 UTC 
Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird also use Ctrl-Shift-K for spell checking, (In reply to comment #4)
> ...and mozilla uses F7 for caret mode. so if changing this, we would be
> inconsistent with other applications as well. :-/
> 

Does caret mode apply to the email composition window?
Comment 8 André Klapper 2006-01-01 14:44:23 UTC 
dude, now you got me. ;-)
of course you're right, so we could really use F7 in the composer for spell checking.

i'm going to take a look at this within the grand review of keyboard shortcuts(TM) for evo2.6.
thanks for the comment. :-)
Comment 9 André Klapper 2006-01-13 13:43:59 UTC 
F7 is the new key in evolution 2.5.5 and the upcoming 2.6.
thanks for reporting this. :-)