[sylpheed:34321] Re: windows version question

[Bruce Bowler]

Time to drag out the old "dead horse" whip and see if there's any
update on (or hope of) getting spell checking in the windows version of
sylpheed.  The lack of spell checking is one of only 3 complaints I
have with sylpheed (at least one of the others is, I suspect, a local
configuration problem of some sort [see my questions about printing]
and the other has improved a lot lately [the address book interface])

As a pointer to another (initially linux) application that now
supports windows with spellchecking enabled on all platforms, I'd urge
Hiro to look at the "pan" newsreader (pan.rebelbase.com or if you
prefer nntp, gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.{devel|user}).  I believe that
the windows port uses aspell, but I'm not sure which version/interface.

Thanks!
Bruce

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 13:06:39 +0900 Hiroyuki Yamamoto
<hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> put fingers to keyboard and said:

> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:48:51 -0400
> Bruce Bowler <bbowler at bigelow.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:55:13 +0100
> > Stefaan A Eeckels <Stefaan.Eeckels at ecc.lu> put fingers to keyboard
> > and said:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:33:01 -0500
> > > Bruce Bowler <bbowler at bigelow.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > What is the likelyhood of ever (ok, ever is a long long time,
> > > > how about in the near future) of getting a pre-built windows
> > > > version that has a spell checker integrated and/or ldap support?
> > > 
> > > I second the request for a spell checker and LDAP. Especially the
> > > absence of a spell checker in the Windows version has lost
> > > Sylpheed quite a few users over here.
> > 
> > Not attempting to beat a dead horse, but I was just googling
> > something else related to sylpheed and came across a question in
> > September 2006 (message #30017) asking for windows spell checking,
> > so it's a *long standing* request (that's not even on the TODO list
> > at the website )-:
> > 
> > Hiro, is there anything we, as users, can do to help spur along
> > development of a version for windows that includes spell checking
> > as a built in feature (personally, I'm not interested in claws)?
> 
> I want to know whether GtkSpell can work under Windows or not.
> (Sylpheed's spell checking feature uses GtkSpell + aspell/enchant).
> 
> -- 
> Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>


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