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?
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?
IMO Andrey means quoted text, which is red in the first quoting level (at least if you've updated) which is quite unfortunate.
Oh... it's green here. I didn't know the default had changed.
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.
Created attachment 12713 [details] Colour settings
Created attachment 12714 [details] Spell checking settings
BTW when I make a spelling error, text is in black. So apparently somehow colours are swapped.
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.
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).