Bug 150276

Summary:	Underline misspelled words instead of changing color to red
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kdelibs	Reporter:	Kevin Coonan <kevin.coonan>
Component:	kspell	Assignee:	Zack Rusin <zack>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bluedzins, cfeck, gladhorn
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Kevin Coonan 2007-09-27 22:39:53 UTC

Version:           1.9.6 (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

Many of us users are both poor spellers and are color blind.  Using color as the sole mechanism to indicate a spelling error is ineffective.  Suggest providing underline (wavey or dotted line) or user-selected mechanism to indicate spelling errors while typing.

Also need to spell check formatted e-mail.

Comment 1 Thomas McGuire 2008-05-02 16:25:51 UTC

Moving this bug to kdelibs, where the spellcheck highlighter is.

Comment 2 Frederik Gladhorn 2012-02-12 11:01:26 UTC

I'd say this is fixed as in KDE 4 the spell checker underlines.

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2012-02-13 17:45:18 UTC

As far as I can see, the spell checking still uses the red color:

highlighter.cpp:91:    d->spellColor = _col.isValid() ? _col : Qt::red;

But I am not sure where that code is still used, so I don't know how to test.