Richard Heck wrote: > I wouldn't object to enabling it by default in 2.1. If people felt we > shouldn't > change how existing installs work, then it would be trivial to add > something to prefs2prefs to set it as off for people who are upgrading > from 2.0. Seems quite sensible, really.
IMHO this is not an issue of old vs. new users. Continous spell checking can be a very useful feature, but it also can get in the way and distract from the main task in early phases of text production, as Rainer wrote. Another case where it hurts is if you have many special terms which are not in the dictionary, and you are quite good at spelling anyway. I'd prefer to keep the default off, but if the majority wants it on I would not object. IMHO we should not fiddle with the setting in prefs2prefs, even if that means that the feature will be enabled in cases where it was disabled before, since there are many possible pref files which are read (e.g. installer/distro generated ones, which may not be in the newest format). Therefore it could easily happen that the feature will be switched off even for new installs. If you upgrade, it is a good idea to read RELEASE_NOTES anyway. Georg
