LinLog

I finally got the check-as-you-type spell checker in Konqueror to work in Kubuntu. I probably would have fixed it sooner if I had stayed with my original plan and tried to migrate from Opera to Konqueror, but that didn't work out. Opera just has too many handy features and Konqueror is a little schizophrenic, owing to the fact that it tries to be both a web browser and a file manager. I love it as a file manager, but in terms of user interface, Konqueror can't compare to Opera as a web browser.

Anyway, all I had to do was install ispell and spell checking started working. It occurred to me because I knew that I needed to install aspell for Opera and I remembered having ispell in Slackware, so I figured I'd give it a try. It seems strange to me that they didn't think to include ispell in the default installation. After all, Konqueror is the only web browser by default and the inline spell checking is the single best feature it has, so it seems like a natural.