Bug 336931

Summary:	Please add a Dictionary combo in the status bar
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-ktexteditor	Reporter:	Louis Moureaux <m_louis30>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.100.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	All
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Louis Moureaux 2014-07-01 14:43:07 UTC

I do often use Kate to write stuff in either French or English, and I use the spellchecker.

However, switching language is a real pain : one needs to open Tools > Spelling > Change Dictionary, and then only can select a dictionary. It would be much easier (and logical) to have a Dictionary combo next to the Encoding and Syntax Highlighting ones.

Thanks for your great software ! :-)

Reproducible: Always




I'm using Project Neon packages in KVM, but I doubt this info is relevant...

Comment 1 Dominik Haumann 2014-09-29 16:48:31 UTC

A new feature of Sonnet in the KF5 land is automatic language detection:
http://martinsandsmark.wordpress.com/2014/09/23/automated-language-detection/

I'm not sure adding another combo box to the statusbar is a good idea, since the statusbar gets more and more cluttered then. Would the automatic language detection already help?

Comment 2 Louis Moureaux 2014-09-29 21:08:10 UTC

It would definitely help if it works well, as it's a more elegant solution to the same problem.
(I find the combo that appears when one selects "Change Dictionary" hard to discover, by the way.)

Comment 3 Louis Moureaux 2018-09-26 23:23:56 UTC

Closing since Sonnet does indeed work well.