[Sugar-devel] How to enable spellchecking on Write Activity?

[Coltivare Fiori]

On 11/10/2012 14:37, Coltivare Fiori wrote:
> On 11/10/2012 12:09, Coltivare Fiori wrote:
>> On 10/10/2012 22:56, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>>> We are porting Write to a newer version of abiword.
>>> No more features will be developed in Write for sugar 0.96
>>>
>>> Gonzalo
>>>
>>
>> OK, but do you think that the Abiword that you're working upon may have
>> some "embedded" capabilities for spellchecking, or were they stripped
>> off at some time? I do not mean an extended and interactive
>> spellchecking, just something as simple as underlying words that are not
>> found in the dictionary.
>>
>> Thanks for sharing your thoughts about this, this will help me make
>> decisions.
>>
>> Ernesto
>>
> 
> I went on trying to understand :-)
> 
> I did
> 
> 	$ git://git.sugarlabs.org/write/mainline.git
> 
> then I did
> 
> 	$ grep -Ri spell *
> 
> and I found something only in file keybindings.xml.
> 
> Then I did
> 
> 	$ grep -Ri keybindings.xml *
> and I got
> AbiWordActivity.py:        keybindings_file =
> os.path.join(get_bundle_path(), 'keybindings.xml')
> 
> If I go and look for the history of such a file I see
> 
> $ git log keybindings.xml
> commit d782c76c9c246f3442e4c76a684caf87b7eaa827
> Author: Marc Maurer <uwog at uwog.net>
> Date:   Thu Oct 18 22:07:39 2007 +0200
> 
>     Added keybinding call and XML config file to Write activity (foddex)
> 
> It does not say very clearly :-) that that file is discarded and that I
> am lost, so now I think there may still be a chance for hacking my copy
> of Sugar as per
> http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/hacking_sugars_write_activity_to_support_spellchecking.html
> and recompile (?) Write to see what happens.

I found also
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2010-September/026534.html

and eventually I could use a (english) thesaurus. But I don't see any
spell-checking available yet, so I'm accepting suggestions.

TIA

Ernesto