527982 - New description for Core:Spellchecker is confusing, misleading, and incorrect

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Administration, task)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

extensions/src/spellcheck/ contains a number of items:

1) src/, the shared backend code that is used by all spellcheckers to get words, etc., from editors and to place corrected words back in editors

2) hunspell/, the Hunspell spellchecker built/used by default by XUL applications, which analyses words and compares them to words in dictionaries, and some Mozilla code to connect to 1)

3) locale/, which currently contains the en-US dictionary for hunspell

4) osxspell/, which contains Mozilla code to connect the Mac OS X spellchecker to 1) and which is currently built/used only by Camino (but which was formerly built/used by all mozilla.org Mac products on 1.9.0 and which may again be built/used by Firefox in the future)

The directory does not contain any code to connect any individual application to 2) or 4) (e.g., UI code).

Bugs about all four parts of the component are filed in Core:Spelling checker.

The description for the component should be simply "For bugs with the spelling checker used by Mozilla-based applications." (or "Mozilla applications" if you prefer).

If you want the description to be more comprehensive, you could instead use something like "For bugs with the spelling checker used by Mozilla-based applications. This includes the backend code, the Hunspell spell checker, the en-US Hunspell dictionary, and the osxspell interface to the Mac OS X spell checker."

Comment 1

[timeless]

i took the more detailed description. thanks!

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Thanks!