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Sonnet
by Sepp on Friday 28/Mar/2008, @07:40
Aaron again mentions Sonnet as an important part of KDE 4.
But what happened to it? Is it still developed? Which features were implemented until Jacob Rideout disappeared?
Different people asked this several times on the Dot, but nobody answered. ( http://dot.kde.org/1200050369/1200289711/ )

There was only one Message on the Sonnet mailinglist this year!
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-sonnet/

So I assume it's indeed a dead project.
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Re: Sonnet
by Leo S on Friday 28/Mar/2008, @07:59
I think Zack Rusin was doing some work on it. But it certainly seems not quite complete yet. In Konq, misspelled words do get highlighted, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to actually run a spellcheck on the textbox or right click a word to correct it.
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Re: Sonnet
by fred on Friday 28/Mar/2008, @08:03
Jacob Rideout wanted to developed a full-featured language engine, including spellchecker, grammar checker, even with language detection.

But we already had KSpell2 in KDE3, which was then transformed into "Sonnet" in KDE 4. So our current version of Sonnet only does spellchecking, no fancy grammar checker, no language detection and no other cool stuffs, but we _still have_ Sonnet inside kdelibs and the spellchecker is working just fine.
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  • Re: Sonnet
    by cloose on Friday 28/Mar/2008, @08:48
    AFAIK Jacob Rideout's work never made it into kdelibs. All the interesting stuff is in a separate svn branch: http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/sonnet-refactoring/.

    Would be great if somebody would pick up the work and finish it. Maybe a good Google SoC project?
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    • Re: Sonnet
      by Nick Shaforostoff on Friday 28/Mar/2008, @21:55
      I might find some time for sonnet magic if I get accepted for GSoC project on Lokalize or KNotify... ;)
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Re: Sonnet
by Zack Rusin on Friday 28/Mar/2008, @08:43
No, I just don't use the list.
I've been doing this linguistic stuff for a long time, from KSpell, through KSpell2 to Sonnet and while I'd absolutely love to get more help, you can be sure that no matter how busy I am I'll always find a bit of time for it.
For KDE 4.1 the most important features that I want to finish are removal of our custom text segmentation algorithm and use of QTextBoundaryFinder recently introduced in Qt and the addition of a proper dictionary class (not spell-checking, dictionary - meaning definitions of words).
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