ruben
06-04-2006, 05:08 PM
Hi!
I've come to love the built-in spell checker, but even though I first liked the simplicity, I've come to the point, where I get really annoyed by the process of changing languages, so annoyed, that I don't use it that much anymore actually.
My problems include but are not limited too:
• Chatting with foreign friends at the same time. Swedish, German, American? Well, I can check one language and get everything red in two chat windows, I can choose Multilingual and make the check worthless (Swedish and German are at times similar and my biggest error-source at the moment is confusion between the two.). Same problem with mail, web-sites (why can't they just take the language meta-data), etc.
• This occurs because the previous problem isn't solved, so it annoys me even more: When I open the Spell Check mini-window, I have to use my mouse (or there is some hidden shortcut to close these floating windows..).
It would be much more logical in my eyes, if I could just close it with Cmd-Shift-Point (the shortcut I use to open it). I would even like to be able to scroll the languages (just so that the change gets more fluid and I don't have to use the mouse. Gosh, I hate these small floating windows).
• Has to be manually started in text areas and not automatically there in all applications. Plain stupid, what else except language to you write in text areas?
• No grammar check. I realise this can be annoying because netspeak uses quite uncommon to no grammar, but at least wrong articles (à la: le fille/der Mädchen/ett flicka/el niña.. you get the point) and so on could be marked.
• not fluid. It's a spell check, I don't want to use my mouse to correct my typos.
So, what do you say, are there any third party plug-ins that help me with some of these problems or can I do something myself or did I just give someone an idea for way to make big $$?
PS.: The list thing in the forum doesn't work in Safari.. annoying.
I've come to love the built-in spell checker, but even though I first liked the simplicity, I've come to the point, where I get really annoyed by the process of changing languages, so annoyed, that I don't use it that much anymore actually.
My problems include but are not limited too:
• Chatting with foreign friends at the same time. Swedish, German, American? Well, I can check one language and get everything red in two chat windows, I can choose Multilingual and make the check worthless (Swedish and German are at times similar and my biggest error-source at the moment is confusion between the two.). Same problem with mail, web-sites (why can't they just take the language meta-data), etc.
• This occurs because the previous problem isn't solved, so it annoys me even more: When I open the Spell Check mini-window, I have to use my mouse (or there is some hidden shortcut to close these floating windows..).
It would be much more logical in my eyes, if I could just close it with Cmd-Shift-Point (the shortcut I use to open it). I would even like to be able to scroll the languages (just so that the change gets more fluid and I don't have to use the mouse. Gosh, I hate these small floating windows).
• Has to be manually started in text areas and not automatically there in all applications. Plain stupid, what else except language to you write in text areas?
• No grammar check. I realise this can be annoying because netspeak uses quite uncommon to no grammar, but at least wrong articles (à la: le fille/der Mädchen/ett flicka/el niña.. you get the point) and so on could be marked.
• not fluid. It's a spell check, I don't want to use my mouse to correct my typos.
So, what do you say, are there any third party plug-ins that help me with some of these problems or can I do something myself or did I just give someone an idea for way to make big $$?
PS.: The list thing in the forum doesn't work in Safari.. annoying.