I'm working on implementing: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary in our KDE packages. This is the current situation: * KDE 4 uses an API called Sonnet for spellchecking. Sonnet already has an enchant backend, and it is the default recommended by upstream. There's also an aspell backend; we will probably drop the aspell-devel BR so we lose the hard aspell dependency, aspell can be used through enchant anyway (using enchant-aspell, which is about to be split into a separate subpackage according to FeatureDictionary). * The situation in KDE 3 is more complex. We'll be stuck with several KDE 3 apps for a while to come, so I had to find a solution there too. As KDE 3 has seen years of binary compatibility, there are 2 spellchecking implementations in kdelibs3: - legacy KSpell: That API uses command-line spellcheckers using the "ispell pipe interface". It doesn't use plugins, instead, everything is handled by 2 central classes. Rewriting this code to use libraries (e.g. enchant) properly is a lot of effort for this legacy code. Thus, I patched it to support the hunspell command line and its "ispell pipe interface" (which required only minor changes): http://repo.calcforge.org/f9/kdelibs-3.5.8-kspell-hunspell.diff The patch is preliminary, I still have to test that it works, and we also have to make sure the defaults are set up so hunspell is used by default, at least for new installations. - KSpell2: This is the API KDE 4's Sonnet is derived from. It uses spellchecking libraries and a plugin architecture. I backported Sonnet's enchant backend plugin from kdelibs 4 SVN to KSpell2: http://repo.calcforge.org/f9/kdelibs-3.5.8-kspell2-enchant.diff I did a minimum amount of testing on this one, it could probably use more. And here too, we'll want to make sure it is the default, most likely by not shipping any other KSpell2 backend. This comes "fresh out of the presses". I haven't added these patches to the Rawhide packages or submitted them upstream yet. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
