Patch for spell checking in textareas.

David Faure david at mandrakesoft.com
Tue May 7 16:51:11 BST 2002


On Wednesday 24 April 2002 13:12, celer wrote:
> Can you reconsider this patch now that 3.0 is out. Unfortunately I have
> not had time to even see if it is still valid, since work is keeping me
> too busy.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dave

I currently have no time for Konqueror/KHTML either, being busy with
PerlQt and KOffice.
My position stands though, FWIW: this is a short-term implementation,
a better long-term solution should be thought of.

David.
 
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 20 February 2002 03:44, celer wrote:
> > >
> > > Please find attached a patch to add spell checking functionality to
> > > text areas. If this is not the right place to send it would you please let
> > > me know where is.
> >
> > Great to see a patch for that!
> > Unfortunately this is definitely a new feature, and KDE is currently frozen
> > for new features, for the upcoming 3.0 release.
> > Can you repost this patch right after 3.0 is out ?
> >
> > That is, unless the real KHTML developers (Dirk and Lars indeed ;) decide
> > it's safe enough to go in before, I suppose.
> >
> > Actually, the fact that TextAreaWidget inherits QTextEdit again is probably because
> > KEditCtl got deprecated... but in the long run it'd be great to use KTextEditor::Editor instead,
> > IMHO. This would make it possible to use Kate , which hopefully comes with
> > spellchecking (and syntax highlighting etc.). Well, that's more long term, it
> > doesn't prevent adding spellcheck directly to TextAreaWidget though.
> >
> >
> 
> 

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