Bug 113317

Summary:	default colours for new message and spelling errors indistinguishable
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandriva RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	New message window with text in red Colour settings Spell checking settings

Description Andrey Borzenkov 2005-09-25 20:47:15 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.2)
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs
OS:                Linux

Here (Mandrake cooker - almost 2006), Toshiba Portege 4000 (Trident CyberBlade),  24 bit depths, colours for new message text and spell errors are absolutely the same which makes typing new message rather hard - you get impression that everything is in error. Probably new messages should not be necessarily red?

Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2005-09-25 20:54:51 UTC

There is no confusion: the message list can never contain spelling errors. And the composer (which is where you can type and where spelling errors could happen) does not mark new text.

So I don't understand your problem. Can you attach a screenshot showing it?

Comment 2 Andreas Gungl 2005-09-26 06:49:17 UTC

IMO Andrey means quoted text, which is red in the first quoting level (at 
least if you've updated) which is quite unfortunate.

Comment 3 Thiago Macieira 2005-09-26 07:42:14 UTC

Oh... it's green here. I didn't know the default had changed.

Comment 4 Andrey Borzenkov 2005-09-26 17:56:22 UTC

Created attachment 12712 [details]
New message window with text in red

OK I misunderstood what "new message" is. I attach composer window; all text is
red. So I assume this means spell check error. But spell checker is correctly
set to english and my character set UTF-8 (can kmail not determine it itself?).
Local is ru_RU.UTF-8. And if I manually run spell check, *no* error is found
(oh, well, it found "repositiry" in subject which - incidentally - is not
marked as bad :).

I also attach colour setting window and spell check settings. BTW in Konqueror
text input spell checking works just fine.

Comment 5 Andrey Borzenkov 2005-09-26 17:57:08 UTC

Created attachment 12713 [details]
Colour settings

Comment 6 Andrey Borzenkov 2005-09-26 17:57:52 UTC

Created attachment 12714 [details]
Spell checking settings

Comment 7 Andrey Borzenkov 2005-09-27 04:58:57 UTC

BTW when I make a spelling error, text is in black. So apparently somehow colours are swapped.

Comment 8 Andrey Borzenkov 2005-10-29 12:33:05 UTC

It is now KDE 3.5 beta2

OK it is apparently some problem with spell check. The colour is due to spell check "errors" and it is completely weird. I have locale ru_RU.UTF-8 and kde-i18n-ru, default language in KDE is ru as well. Spell check is configured to use aspell, default dictionary English (US) and encoding UTF-8. Now what happens:

- when I start typing English text, it is marked as spellerror. But when I right click on it I get no suggestion. _Sometimes_ when I run Tools -> Spellcheck, I see that all words are marked as unknown.

- when I type Russian, it is correctly marked as spellerror when it is; right clicking on it brings correct list of suggested replacements.

- but just now, when I try to use spell check menu item, it always says "no errors found" even if I have *BAD* Russian words that are marked as error!

I am ready to provide any necessary information.

Comment 9 Thomas McGuire 2009-05-31 20:56:39 UTC

Marking as fixed, in KDE 4.2 spelling errors are now underlined with a wiggly line, so the color doesn't matter much anymore (and also, the colors are not swapped).