Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources OS: Linux I do not find a possibility to turn off spell-checking. Please give one under Settings | Spellchecker, e.g. a tag-box "do spell checking". See also Bug 83423 "disable spell checking per default".

When writing a mail, there is a menu entry Options|Automatic Spellchecking. This option is supposed to be persistent. Now, this report is no longer a feature request, but a bug report, because there is a SYMPTOM: when you start writing a mail and set Options|Automatic Spellchecking to OFF, close the mail and start a new mail, automatic spellchecking is turned ON. Verify this by writing "aoei ". REASON: kmedit::autospellchecking cannot get effective because it is not initialized when called by KMComposeWin::KMComposeWin. You can verify this by a debug line at the beginning of kmedit::autospellchecking: if ( !mSpellChecker ) kdDebug(5006) << "no mspellchecker" << endl; SOLUTION: initialize AutoSpellChecking by a line mEditor->initializeAutoSpellChecking(); in the KMComposeWin's constructor before the first call to mEditor->autoSpellChecking( whatever );

SVN commit 450836 by tstaerk: If spellcheck is toggled off, do not spellcheck from the beginning of a new mail on. BUGS:109389 M +1 -1 kmcomposewin.cpp --- branches/KDE/3.5/kdepim/kmail/kmcomposewin.cpp #450835:450836 @@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ mSplitter->moveToFirst( mEditor ); mSplitter->setOpaqueResize( true ); + mEditor->initializeAutoSpellChecking(); mEditor->setTextFormat(Qt::PlainText); mEditor->setAcceptDrops( true ); @@ -4015,7 +4016,6 @@ QString text = mEditor->text(); mEditor->setText(text); // otherwise the text still looks formatted mEditor->setModified(true); - mEditor->initializeAutoSpellChecking(); slotAutoSpellCheckingToggled(true); } }

SVN commit 542801 by tstaerk: Give a possibility to disable SpellChecking already in KDE 3.5.3. To do it, set KSpell_DoSpellChecking=0 in the [KSpell] section of kdeglobals. BUGS:83423 CCBUGS:109389 M +24 -20 ksyntaxhighlighter.cpp --- branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/kdeui/ksyntaxhighlighter.cpp #542800:542801 @@ -334,28 +334,32 @@ void KDictSpellingHighlighter::slotSpellReady( KSpell *spell ) { kdDebug(0) << "KDictSpellingHighlighter::slotSpellReady( " << spell << " )" << endl; - if ( d->globalConfig ) { - connect( d->sDictionaryMonitor, SIGNAL( destroyed()), - this, SLOT( slotDictionaryChanged() )); - } - if ( spell != d->spell ) + KConfigGroup cg( KGlobal::config(),"KSpell" ); + if ( cg.readEntry("KSpell_DoSpellChecking") != "0" ) { - delete d->spell; - d->spell = spell; + if ( d->globalConfig ) { + connect( d->sDictionaryMonitor, SIGNAL( destroyed()), + this, SLOT( slotDictionaryChanged() )); + } + if ( spell != d->spell ) + { + delete d->spell; + d->spell = spell; + } + d->spellReady = true; + const QStringList l = KSpellingHighlighter::personalWords(); + for ( QStringList::ConstIterator it = l.begin(); it != l.end(); ++it ) { + d->spell->addPersonal( *it ); + } + connect( spell, SIGNAL( misspelling( const QString &, const QStringList &, unsigned int )), + this, SLOT( slotMisspelling( const QString &, const QStringList &, unsigned int ))); + connect( spell, SIGNAL( corrected( const QString &, const QString &, unsigned int )), + this, SLOT( slotCorrected( const QString &, const QString &, unsigned int ))); + d->checksRequested = 0; + d->checksDone = 0; + d->completeRehighlightRequired = true; + d->rehighlightRequest->start( 0, true ); } - d->spellReady = true; - const QStringList l = KSpellingHighlighter::personalWords(); - for ( QStringList::ConstIterator it = l.begin(); it != l.end(); ++it ) { - d->spell->addPersonal( *it ); - } - connect( spell, SIGNAL( misspelling( const QString &, const QStringList &, unsigned int )), - this, SLOT( slotMisspelling( const QString &, const QStringList &, unsigned int ))); - connect( spell, SIGNAL( corrected( const QString &, const QString &, unsigned int )), - this, SLOT( slotCorrected( const QString &, const QString &, unsigned int ))); - d->checksRequested = 0; - d->checksDone = 0; - d->completeRehighlightRequired = true; - d->rehighlightRequest->start( 0, true ); } bool KDictSpellingHighlighter::isMisspelled( const QString &word )

I just merged to 3.5.5 (Debian unstable) and konqueror now seems to ignore KSpell_DoSpellChecking=0; i.e. multi-line inputs in web-forms are terribly slow again, because of autom. spell-checking. It worked for me in 3.5.4. Does anybody experience the same behavior?