Toggle spell checker in the session rather than the webPreferences.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>

app/common/typed-ipc.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import type {MenuProps, ServerConf} from "./types";
 
 export interface MainMessage {
   "clear-app-settings": () => void;
+  "configure-spell-checker": () => void;
   downloadFile: (url: string, downloadPath: string) => void;
   "error-reporting": () => void;
   "fetch-user-agent": () => string;
@@ -14,7 +15,6 @@ export interface MainMessage {
   "realm-name-changed": (serverURL: string, realmName: string) => void;
   "reload-full-app": () => void;
   "save-last-tab": (index: number) => void;
-  "set-spellcheck-langs": () => void;
   "switch-server-tab": (index: number) => void;
   "toggle-app": () => void;
   "toggle-badge-option": (newValue: boolean) => void;

app/main/index.ts

@@ -174,14 +174,19 @@ function createMainWindow(): Electron.BrowserWindow {
   const ses = session.fromPartition("persist:webviewsession");
   ses.setUserAgent(`ZulipElectron/${app.getVersion()} ${ses.getUserAgent()}`);
 
-  ipcMain.on("set-spellcheck-langs", () => {
-    ses.setSpellCheckerLanguages(
-      process.platform === "darwin"
-        ? // Work around https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/30215.
-          mainWindow.webContents.session.getSpellCheckerLanguages()
-        : ConfigUtil.getConfigItem("spellcheckerLanguages", null) ?? [],
-    );
-  });
+  function configureSpellChecker() {
+    const enable = ConfigUtil.getConfigItem("enableSpellchecker", true);
+    if (enable && process.platform !== "darwin") {
+      ses.setSpellCheckerLanguages(
+        ConfigUtil.getConfigItem("spellcheckerLanguages", null) ?? [],
+      );
+    }
+
+    ses.setSpellCheckerEnabled(enable);
+  }
+
+  configureSpellChecker();
+  ipcMain.on("configure-spell-checker", configureSpellChecker);
 
   AppMenu.setMenu({
     tabs: [],

app/renderer/js/components/webview.ts

@@ -71,13 +71,7 @@ export default class WebView {
           ? html``
           : html`preload="${props.preload}"`}
         partition="persist:webviewsession"
-        webpreferences="
-          contextIsolation,
-          spellcheck=${Boolean(
-          ConfigUtil.getConfigItem("enableSpellchecker", true),
-        )},
-          worldSafeExecuteJavaScript=true
-        "
+        webpreferences="contextIsolation, worldSafeExecuteJavaScript=true"
       >
       </webview>
     `;

app/renderer/js/main.ts

@@ -128,7 +128,6 @@ export class ServerManagerView {
     await this.initTabs();
     this.initActions();
     this.registerIpcs();
-    ipcRenderer.send("set-spellcheck-langs");
   }
 
   async loadProxy(): Promise<void> {

app/renderer/js/pages/preference/general-section.ts

@@ -425,6 +425,7 @@ export function initGeneralSection({$root}: GeneralSectionProps): void {
       clickHandler: () => {
         const newValue = !ConfigUtil.getConfigItem("enableSpellchecker", true);
         ConfigUtil.setConfigItem("enableSpellchecker", newValue);
+        ipcRenderer.send("configure-spell-checker");
         enableSpellchecker();
         const spellcheckerLanguageInput: HTMLElement =
           $root.querySelector("#spellcheck-langs")!;
@@ -664,7 +665,7 @@ export function initGeneralSection({$root}: GeneralSectionProps): void {
       tagField.addEventListener("change", () => {
         if (tagField.value.length === 0) {
           ConfigUtil.setConfigItem("spellcheckerLanguages", []);
-          ipcRenderer.send("set-spellcheck-langs");
+          ipcRenderer.send("configure-spell-checker");
         } else {
           const data: unknown = JSON.parse(tagField.value);
           const spellLangs: string[] = z
@@ -672,7 +673,7 @@ export function initGeneralSection({$root}: GeneralSectionProps): void {
             .parse(data)
             .map((elt) => languagePairs.get(elt.value)!);
           ConfigUtil.setConfigItem("spellcheckerLanguages", spellLangs);
-          ipcRenderer.send("set-spellcheck-langs");
+          ipcRenderer.send("configure-spell-checker");
         }
       });
     }