Re: commit: Grammar squiggle color is a preference.

Hi Alan,

For the love of Jeebuz, please stop CC'ing me!

> Would it be significantly more difficult to do a
> gtk-grammar dialog so
> that other programs could directly reuse the same
> thing?
>
> I'm thinking gedit at least, and possibly others
> will want something
> analagous to gtk-spell and if we can avoid
> inconsistancy it would be
> great.

For the future, this sounds great. For the present,
this is putting the cart before the horse. There have
been a *lot* of open source spell checkers written,
and the requirements are fairly well known. It allowed
for something like Enchant to exist.

For grammar checkers, this is not the case. I have no
idea what the API interface should look like or what
sorts of things we might want to plug into it.

Can I make a GTK+ dialog that sits on top of Link?
Sure. Do I want to? Maybe. Will the 2nd person that
downloads it ask if it can handle languages other than
English and/or complain the quality of its results?
Absolutely.

This is not a corner that I wish to paint myself into.

> Presumably this is the point where I should fire up
> glade and start
> creating a mockup of the dialog? (or it might be
> smarter to use the
> spellchecker dialog as a starting point)

That would be a useful start, at least to get some
ideas down "on paper" on what the user interface might
look like. It would help dictate what the programmatic
interface might be.

Best,
Dom

                
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Received on Wed Feb 9 18:31:17 2005