Software bloat (was: Re: New to the list)

[Zane H. Healy]

> I find it distracting, to be honest. Plus it seems to have the effect of 
> encouraging people to be lazy and no do any sort of proof-reading of their 
> work before submitting; they rely on spell-checking as they go and so don't 
> bother doing any kind of proper final check.

I can understand complaints that it's distracting (it should be an option,
and I think it is).  Or that it's not that accurate, but lets be serious,
what spell checker is.  I was always forgeting to run what I'd typed up
through a spell checker, now when I'm using systems/apps that support this
feature I can easily correct spellings when I read over it to ensure that it
makes sense.

> (Oh, my other pet-peeve is things that 'suggest' text for you based on things 
> that you've typed before, often in a totally different context - it's 
> distracting having things pop up on screen randomly whilst working)

I hate this as well, and would like to add "Auto-correct" (I'd probably like
this if it was easier to find, configure and turn on and off).  It does work
great for "hte" -> "the" :^)

		Zane