Remove spellcheck setting

[Danielle Foré]

Can't think of a good reason why you'd want to disable spell check

[Giulio Sant (giulio-sant)]

Could you explain the reason behind this decision? I don't know which scenario you had in mind, but personally this is a major annoyance because I type stuff in at least two different languages on a regular basis, so whenever I use a language different from the system default, my text gets all underlined by the spellcheck system.

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Giulio I think the reasoning is that all GTK text entries should have spell checking, and disabling that should be at a system level, not in each and every app. Further, I'd say the multilingual use case would be a bug against GTK or the OS; ideally you'd have both languages added so the system knows not to mark valid words in either language as incorrect.

[Giulio Sant (giulio-sant)]

I totally agree with you. What I don't get, then, is: given that there's a shortcoming either in GTK or in the OS, why remove an option which, at least partly, helps overcoming that shortcoming? I mean, what's the benefit, in this scenario, of taking away the option? To unclutter for uncluttering's sake? Sorry, but I only see an inconvenience for the end user.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Hey Giulio, Can you do me a huge favor and file a new issue regarding spell check not being aware of language changes?

I think the immediate benefit is that before we didn't know that there was an i18n issue, and now we do. So now we can work on a solution to a problem that we didn't previously know about :)

[Giulio Sant (giulio-sant)]

Sure thing I will. Really appreciate your answer. Hope I can spell out the issue correctly ☺

[Giulio Sant (giulio-sant)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1602982