Peter Moulder wrote:
However, shouldn't we be thinking about how to conveniently access a proper word processor from within Inkscape, rather than trying to re-implement a word processor feature by feature?
I don't thinks so, this would require something like Abiword or OpenOffice.org as a dependency?
People like me, who are not native English speakers, do a lot of spelling errors and the checker is useful for us when doing simple tasks, like when I am adding speech bubbles to my webcomic. It would be overkill to use a full featured word processor for 3-5 phrases in a webcomic.
PS: the trick is to make the spell checking do not stand in the way of the design(like red underlines distracting your attention), so probably a handy shortcut to enable/disable.