[Pan-users] Re: Documentations

[Duncan]

Matej Cepl <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Thu, 21 May 2009 11:51:57
+0000:

> I am multilingual (native Czech) and although I am able to deal with
> complicated configurations (after the only real configuration tool has
> only two letters in its name, 'v' and 'i'), I found method used by many
> other Gnome applications (Evolution, Gajim) pretty easy. You just check
> more than one check box for all applicable languages and spellchecker
> will check all of them ... chance that correct English word will be
> incorrect Czech one is pretty slim. Although, of course as the selected
> languages are closer to each other it might become a problem.

The caveat would be which library provides that functionality.  If it's 
builtin to a GTK library (or in gtkspell), great, pan depends on GTK (and 
gtkspell when the appropriate compile time option is enabled) already, 
altho if it's a new feature it should be made to degrade gracefully with 
older versions.  (FWIW, this is why pan doesn't have its own printing 
support yet, it was formerly a gnome option, now it's gtk, but only newer 
gtk, and pan hasn't implemented it due to both lack of the correctly 
rounded tuit <g>, and to worries about backward compatibility with older 
gtks).  If it's a full GNOME library, then Charles (and many users 
including myself agree, I'm a KDE user not a GNOME user, <index fingers 
crossed in front of me as if defending against a demon!> keep that stuff 
off my system!) doesn't want to bring in all those extra dependencies.

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