Bug 170638

Summary: No way to change colour of spelling errors
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Marcus Harrison <marcus>
Component: generalAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Marcus Harrison 2008-09-07 19:16:55 UTC 
Version:           unknown (using 4.1.1 (KDE 4.1.1), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.24-21-generic

I noticed that there's no obvious way (I think) to change the colour of text that the spellchecker has displayed as misspelled. I would like to use red text, but this renders the automatic spellchecker almost-useless. I wandered if you could either:
1. set the misspelled text to the same colour as, "negative" text, or;
2. have its own colour setting in systemsettings.

If something like this already exists... sorry for your time.
Comment 1 Matthew Woehlke 2008-09-08 18:16:55 UTC 
Thank you for the report. I'm strongly in favor of option 1, since the color roles (short of an architecture change, anyway) are supposed to be generic rather than ultra-specific. However, that would need to be addressed by the application in question, not the kcm.

Please either re-file this against the application that is using hard-coded red (btw, hard-coding colors in general is a no-no!) or let me know what it needs to be filed against. If you re-file, it would be nice to leave a comment here so others can find the new report.
Comment 2 Marcus Harrison 2008-09-08 19:17:25 UTC 
Actually, it spans across KDE 4 applications, to my knowledge: from Konqueror to Kopete to the Plasma notes plasmoid. I presumed it was something to do with the program KDE uses to spellcheck.
Comment 3 Matthew Woehlke 2008-09-09 22:06:54 UTC 
Let's see what kdelibs has to say about it, then.
Comment 4 Marcus Harrison 2009-01-11 01:01:52 UTC 
The colour change has been replaced with a squiggly underline for spelling mistakes, so this no longer applies. I consider it fixed.