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.
Moving this bug to kdelibs, where the spellcheck highlighter is.
I'd say this is fixed as in KDE 4 the spell checker underlines.
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.