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A quick way to change dictionary

Grue

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Friday, December 2nd 2005, 12:59am

A quick way to change dictionary

I love the possibility of spell checking everywhere in KDE. Problem is, I'm multilingual and write in 2 - 3 different languages. As far as I know there isn't a quick way to change dictionaries (like with KHotkeys fx). I think that really would be a nice feature to put into KDE.
Maybe make the checker able to use more than one dictionary (but I guess that should be a feature for aspell/ispell).

Another idea could be to add an auto detector, so when you change keyboard layout it changes dictionary (should be an option of course), or when in Konqueror it could default on the TLD nationality?

Anywho, a way to quickly change dictionaries would be most useful. I hope to see this implemented in a later release :).
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Wednesday, December 7th 2005, 12:11am

I must agree to this point.

I talk several languages and am quite happy with the default english dictionairy, even though my kde is in dutch.

But I do write lot of german, spanish, dutch and swedish as well... It would be nice to have those languages spell-checked as well.

Ideal would be auto recognition, but I remember the old MS Word not handling this very comfortably (I must admit I haven't used it in 2 years).

The best would be a switch in the system-tray, so you can also switch betweem US-english and UK-english.

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Thursday, December 8th 2005, 11:37pm

RE: A quick way to change dictionary

I have the same problem: changing spell checking takes lot of time. Sometimes I work on documents in 3 languages and it is not user friendly to change the languages when required.

A shortcut would be nice.