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Bug 233194 - Spelling checker should use Contacts Database entries to determine proper nouns
Spelling checker should use Contacts Database entries to determine proper nouns
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: GtkHtml
Classification: Other
Component: Rendering
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gtkhtml-maintainers
gtkhtml-maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-11-03 00:07 UTC by Robert Walsh
Modified: 2017-02-09 13:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Robert Walsh 2002-11-03 00:07:19 UTC 
People's names are often not in the spelling checker dictionary.  If a name
appears in the contacts database, then it should not be highlighted as a
spelling mistake as it's probably a proper noun.  Since some people
mightn't like this behaviour, perhaps making it a preference would be a
good idea.
Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue 2007-01-14 21:10:02 UTC 
to devs, could it be done with an eplugin that would for example, get the contact list and build a hash table of it that could be added as an additional dictionary ?

This would probably not work as easily for ldap contacts, but that could be a starting point.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2017-02-09 13:36:26 UTC 
GtkHtml is not under active development anymore. 
Evolution (its main consumer) switched to a WebKit backend a while ago. 
It is currently unlikely that there will be any further GtkHtml development.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping (bug 778387) to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.