[Kde-pim] language detection

[Kevin Krammer]

On Sunday 04 November 2007, Francisco Dellatorre wrote:
> Hello to everyone,
>
> (if this is not the right mailing list to ask this, would you please
> be so kind as to point me to where to go?)
>
> I am a KDE user, and I use Kopete and Kmail in 3 different languages.
> I would like the spell checker to switch the spell dictionary
> according to the language I am using.
>
> In short, I would like to have language detection capacities in KDE text
> boxes.
>
> [...]
>
> Are there plans to include such facility for KDE4 already?

Yes, this part of the KDE framework is called Sonnet, designed and at least 
partially implemented by another linguist specialist, Jacob Rideout.
Unfortunately he "disappeared" during spring time, nobody has been able so far 
to determine why it happend.

> If not, I would like to volunteer to do that. Note that I did follow a
> PhD in computational linguistics ;-) - though I still didn't get the
> title :-( so in short, I know how to write such thing.

Excellent!

> So if there is no code doing that already, I would like to ask where
> should I look in order to learn how to write a plugin for whichever is
> the spelling selection framework in KDE.

There seems to be a dedicated mailinglist here [1].

Some other links which might be interesting for you here [2] and here [3]

> Can I write a plugin in python or does it have to be C++? Haven't done
> serious C++ in a long time, and I don't think that there is a KDE java
> API...

Since this is quite a central piece of KDE's infrastructure it is probably 
unavoidable to do it in C++, though the developer who has taken care of 
Sonnet since Jacob's disappearance, Zack Rusin, will surely welcome any help, 
especially when coming from a domain expert.

Cheers,
Kevin

[1] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-sonnet
[2] http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/kde-4-sonnet/
[3] http://www.linux.com/articles/59963

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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