Bug 150276

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