Is there a way to get spellchecking in darktable (on ubuntu 20.04) tags and metadata editor?
FWIW the forum has no spellcheck either.
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I thought it was a joke.
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Yes @paperdigits, it delighted my heart a tiny bit. Sellcheck made me think of the term sellsword, which is funnily semi-relatable because it has the word word in it and implies dt being a sellout, which then reminded me of the recent kerfuffle regarding Audacity. The meta part is that dt is capitalized, giving some irony to the title. Jovial rabbit hole. Maybe I am just tired.
In spite of my egregious (and absurd) misspelling in the original subject line of this post, I am still wondering if spellcheck is available in dt.
I think spellcheck is a good thing to have. We kind of take it for granted nowadays since A (was it?) introduced to mobile and further back MS introduced it to W and so on. I suppose it would be low on the interest level for the devs. Who knows. One thing you can do is open an issue on GitHub to see if anyone bites. Better yet, learn how to do it yourself and do a pull request. The more you do, the less absurd it would be of an idea.
We don’t currently have spellchecking. There are some gtk libraries to implement it, but that would require development time.
Thank you for clarifying. I opened an issue here: Spellcheck for tags and metadata · Issue #9452 · darktable-org/darktable · GitHub
Is there a library that you would recommend @paperdigits?
enchant is a nice library for spellcheck which supports multiple backends and languages.