[aspell-devel] Feedback (of a sort) and an idea

[J. L. Brewer]

Maybe this will spark some intrest although I'm not really in a position 
to offer much in the line of suggestions.  A friend recomended apsell to 
me because I was looking for a spell-checking tool that I could use 
outside of MSWord or without going to a website.  I downloaded the windows 
version but it wasn't quite what I expected...I see it as just a tool to 
replace spell check in other programs or to check whole documents (but if 
I'm wrong and it can be used on its own, do tell me...I really only 
skimmed the all-UNIX doc page).

What I'd like to see is a small tool that I could run by itself and turn 
to when I need a spelling quickly (mostly when I'm doing live online 
chatting of some sort).  It would run in the background and be a very 
small, bare-bones GUI tool (idealy located in either the task bar or 
system tray in Windows and their equivilants in KDE/Gnome) where one could 
type in a word, hit a search button and quickly get possible spellings (or 
see if you were correct)--in the case of aspell, it would call aspell and 
it's dictionaries to come up with the answers.

Does this sound like something people would like to do?  Or if such a 
thing already exists (doesn't have to be connected to aspell), would 
someone point me toward it? (via private e-mail as I'm not subscribed to 
this list).

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