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Bug 590397 - Allow to set spell checking options in a centralized place for all gnome apps
Allow to set spell checking options in a centralized place for all gnome apps
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-31 18:19 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified: 2013-04-19 14:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Pacho Ramos 2009-07-31 18:19:10 UTC 
Hello

I think that would be interesting being able to configure spell checking preferences under a place from g-c-c allowing users to only need to configure spell checking one time. 

For example, currently, I really like how evolution handles it as I am able to have spell checking for english and spanish at the same time. Then, in my case, if this proposition is accepted, I wouldn't need to make that configuration in evolution, epiphany, gedit... I would simply configure it from control center for all apps.

Thanks a lot
Comment 1 Michael Monreal 2009-07-31 18:27:43 UTC 
Well the problem is that GTK+ does not have spell checking support out of the box and that there are various ways how spell checking can be (and is) implemented across apps. Until this is fixed I don't really see the value of this.
Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2009-07-31 18:42:21 UTC 
I get your point :-/, but this is also a request for long-term, I didn't expect this to be solved soon, I simply want to express the idea of trying to unify spell checking between gnome apps :-)

Regards
Comment 3 Allan Day 2013-04-19 14:23:02 UTC 
I completely agree with this bug report. At the same time, this requires a coordinated approach across the whole of GNOME - a bug against the control center isn't the best place to track the issue.

We have a design page for GNOME-wide spell checking - let's use that to follow this instead: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/SpellChecking