New option: Disable spell check

_locales/en/messages.json

@@ -819,6 +819,14 @@
       "message": "Allow access to camera and microphone",
       "description": "Description of the media permission description"
     },
+    "spellCheck": {
+      "message": "Spell Check",
+      "description": "Description of the media permission description"
+    },
+    "spellCheckDescription": {
+      "message": "Enable spell check of text entered in message composition box",
+      "description": "Description of the media permission description"
+    },
     "clearDataHeader": {
         "message": "Clear Data",
         "description": "Header in the settings dialog for the section dealing with data deletion"

js/background.js

@@ -146,6 +146,12 @@
       getAudioNotification: () => storage.get('audio-notification'),
       setAudioNotification: value => storage.put('audio-notification', value),
 
+      getSpellCheck: () => storage.get('spell-check', true),
+      setSpellCheck: value => {
+        storage.put('spell-check', value);
+        startSpellCheck();
+      },
+
       // eslint-disable-next-line eqeqeq
       isPrimary: () => textsecure.storage.user.getDeviceId() == '1',
       getSyncRequest: () =>
@@ -171,6 +177,15 @@
       },
     };
 
+    const startSpellCheck = () => {
+      if (window.Events.getSpellCheck()) {
+        window.enableSpellCheck();
+      } else {
+        window.disableSpellCheck();
+      }
+    };
+    startSpellCheck();
+
     try {
       await ConversationController.load();
     } finally {

js/settings_start.js

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ const getInitialData = async () => ({
   notificationSetting: await window.getNotificationSetting(),
   audioNotification: await window.getAudioNotification(),
 
+  spellCheck: await window.getSpellCheck(),
+
   mediaPermissions: await window.getMediaPermissions(),
 
   isPrimary: await window.isPrimary(),

js/spell_check.js

@@ -119,6 +119,28 @@
     },
   });
 
+  const dummyChecker = {
+    spellCheck() {
+      return true;
+    },
+    isMisspelled() {
+      return false;
+    },
+    getSuggestions() {
+      return [];
+    },
+    add() {
+      // nothing
+    },
+  };
+
+  window.spellChecker = simpleChecker;
+  window.disableSpellCheck = () => {
+    window.removeEventListener('contextmenu', spellCheckHandler);
+    webFrame.setSpellCheckProvider('en-US', false, dummyChecker);
+  };
+
+  window.enableSpellCheck = () => {
     webFrame.setSpellCheckProvider(
       'en-US',
       // Not sure what this parameter (`autoCorrectWord`) does: https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/4371
@@ -126,8 +148,10 @@
       true,
       simpleChecker
     );
+    window.addEventListener('contextmenu', spellCheckHandler);
+  };
 
-  window.addEventListener('contextmenu', function(e) {
+  const spellCheckHandler = e => {
     // Only show the context menu in text editors.
     if (!e.target.closest('textarea, input, [contenteditable="true"]')) {
       return;
@@ -148,5 +172,5 @@
     setTimeout(function() {
       menu.popup(remote.getCurrentWindow());
     }, 30);
-  });
+  };
 })();

js/views/settings_view.js

@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@
           setFn: window.setAudioNotification,
         });
       }
+      new CheckboxView({
+        el: this.$('.spell-check-setting'),
+        value: window.initialData.spellCheck,
+        setFn: window.setSpellCheck,
+      });
       new CheckboxView({
         el: this.$('.menu-bar-setting'),
         value: window.initialData.hideMenuBar,
@@ -139,6 +144,8 @@
         clearDataExplanation: i18n('clearDataExplanation'),
         permissions: i18n('permissions'),
         mediaPermissionsDescription: i18n('mediaPermissionsDescription'),
+        spellCheckHeader: i18n('spellCheck'),
+        spellCheckDescription: i18n('spellCheckDescription'),
       };
     },
     onClose() {

main.js

@@ -808,6 +808,9 @@ installSettingsSetter('notification-setting');
 installSettingsGetter('audio-notification');
 installSettingsSetter('audio-notification');
 
+installSettingsGetter('spell-check');
+installSettingsSetter('spell-check');
+
 // This one is different because its single source of truth is userConfig, not IndexedDB
 ipc.on('get-media-permissions', event => {
   event.sender.send(

preload.js

@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ installSetter('notification-setting', 'setNotificationSetting');
 installGetter('audio-notification', 'getAudioNotification');
 installSetter('audio-notification', 'setAudioNotification');
 
+installGetter('spell-check', 'getSpellCheck');
+installSetter('spell-check', 'setSpellCheck');
+
 window.getMediaPermissions = () =>
   new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
     ipc.once('get-success-media-permissions', (_event, error, value) => {

settings.html

@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@
     </div>
     {{ /isAudioNotificationSupported }}
     <hr>
+    <div class='spell-check-setting'>
+      <h3>{{ spellCheckHeader }}</h3>
+      <input type='checkbox' name='spell-check-setting' />
+      <label for='spell-check-setting'>{{ spellCheckDescription }}</label>
+    </div>
+    <hr>
     <div class='permissions-setting'>
       <h3>{{ permissions }}</h3>
       <div class='media-permissions'>

settings_preload.js

@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ window.setThemeSetting = makeSetter('theme-setting');
 window.getHideMenuBar = makeGetter('hide-menu-bar');
 window.setHideMenuBar = makeSetter('hide-menu-bar');
 
+window.getSpellCheck = makeGetter('spell-check');
+window.setSpellCheck = makeSetter('spell-check');
+
 window.getNotificationSetting = makeGetter('notification-setting');
 window.setNotificationSetting = makeSetter('notification-setting');
 window.getAudioNotification = makeGetter('audio-notification');