1. Gtkspell doesn't support gjs as far as I now.

2. Build-in GTK spellcheck in progress, however we don't know if it's going to happen soon: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2013-October/msg00025.html

*** Bug 735528 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Would be nice indeed. Is it possible to use gspell for this?

Not off-the-shelf. We'd need to either add support for GtkEntry to GSpell, or replace the entry with a custom entry-like widget based on GtkTextView.

Created attachment 344576 [details] [review]
entryArea: Spell check entry

Gspell recently gained GtkEntry support, so we finally have a simple
standard way to add spelling support.

Review of attachment 344576 [details] [review]:

code looks good to me, one question

::: configure.ac
@@ +49,3 @@
 AX_CHECK_GIR_SYMBOLS_GJS([GLib], [2.0], [log_variant])
 AX_CHECK_GIRS_GJS([GObject], [2.0])
+AX_CHECK_GIR_SYMBOLS_GJS([Gspell], [1], [Entry])

this shouldnt say "1.0" ? i just notice all the other AX_CHECKs uses 1

(In reply to Bastian Ilsø from comment #6)
> +AX_CHECK_GIR_SYMBOLS_GJS([Gspell], [1], [Entry])
> 
> this shouldnt say "1.0" ? i just notice all the other AX_CHECKs uses 1

The version string needs to match the version used by the gir/typelib. Pretty much all libraries use the ".0" notation, except for Gspell which doesn't follow that convention (admittedly it's a pointless one, given that the minor version is never bumped anyway).

(In reply to Florian Müllner from comment #7)
> (In reply to Bastian Ilsø from comment #6)
> > +AX_CHECK_GIR_SYMBOLS_GJS([Gspell], [1], [Entry])
> > 
> > this shouldnt say "1.0" ? i just notice all the other AX_CHECKs uses 1
> 
> The version string needs to match the version used by the gir/typelib.
> Pretty much all libraries use the ".0" notation, except for Gspell which
> doesn't follow that convention (admittedly it's a pointless one, given that
> the minor version is never bumped anyway).

ah ok, then lets do this :-)

Review of attachment 344576 [details] [review]:

lgtm

Attachment 344576 [details] pushed as 1455d21 - entryArea: Spell check entry