Starting with 1.9.3, Telegram optionally supports spell checking using enchant. However enchant is not in dependencies of telegram, so it would be good to have it. Changelog: 1.9.3 (31.12.19) - Videos in chats start playing automatically. - Resume playback from where you left off when watching long videos and listening to long audio tracks. - Control automatic playback for videos, GIFs and round video messages in Settings > Advanced > Automatic media download. - Enjoy system spell checker support on all modern systems. 1.9.2 beta (29.12.19) - Videos in chats start playing automatically. - Resume playback from where you left off when watching long videos. - Control videos, GIFs and round video messages automatic playback in Settings > Advanced > Automatic media download. - Spell checker on Linux using Enchant. Reproducible: Always
I read about that and kind of assumed it would be contained in the binary. If it depends on an external application that could be added as optional dep guarded by USE spell. Did you happen to try it? Does it require any configuration or will is simply be enabled if enchant is available?
On my machine the spellchecker in the most recent version is available. It can be disabled in the advanced settings. If you type something in a chat incorrect words should get underlined red. It seems that all the code for that is part of the static binary, no external deps. If you have a setup where spell checking does not work as expected please let me know. But i guess it is all part of the -bin package so nothing needs to be done.
I was wrong. It is indeed a library inside the binary that dynamically loads libenchant. https://github.com/desktop-app/lib_spellcheck/blob/master/spellcheck/platform/linux/linux_enchant.cpp#L216
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/14301
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6a2a9d960ac651801e6ce7f9b918769b6297a5c7 commit 6a2a9d960ac651801e6ce7f9b918769b6297a5c7 Author: Henning Schild <henning@hennsch.de> AuthorDate: 2020-01-10 20:26:42 +0000 Commit: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-01-13 06:09:44 +0000 net-im/telegram-desktop-bin: Add spell checker optfeature Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/705008 Signed-off-by: Henning Schild <henning@hennsch.de> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/14301 Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> .../telegram-desktop-bin-1.9.3-r1.ebuild | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)
