Continuous Spellchecker Default Behavior (and Voting?)

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 11/1/20 12:47 PM, Joel Kulesza wrote:
> All,
>
> Thanks for your consideration and good discussion on default
> continuous spellchecker behavior subsequent to
> https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg213704.html
> <https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg213704.html>.  
>
> I've created this separate thread to avoid continuing to hijack the
> other thread on dictionary inclusion and to ask whether it makes sense
> to call a vote similar to what Jürgen initiated
> here https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg212545.html
> <https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg212545.html>.
>
> The two options I imagine are (A) keep continuous spellchecking
> disabled by default or (B) make continuous spellchecking enabled by
> default (with appropriate supporting elements of preference
> propagation, etc.).

Just to re-emphasize: I'm happy to write the patch, which would include
some prefs2prefs that would keep (in effect) keep the default as OFF for
existing users.

Let's see what kinds of responses we get and, if need be, we can have a
vote.

Riki