GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 160243
Typeahead window often appears far away from user's focus
Last modified: 2014-03-24 03:00:12 UTC
Hitting keys in a GtkTreeView now causes the typeahead window to appear. When a GtkTreeView is very tall, the typeahead window can find itself very far away from where the user's attention is focused, leading to confusing results about what is going on (especially if keys were hit by accident).
Created attachment 34412 [details] Navigator view from Eclipse, and a typeahead window very far away Screenshot using Eclipse with GTK+ 2.5.5.
Created attachment 34414 [details] Typeahead window on top of other widgets Here is another screenshot of the window from a different user. In this one, the typeahead window appears on top of the tabs for the view it is in, which appears somewhat confusing.
Not entirely clear what the best fix here is. We could add some positioning parameter, which would allow to specify that the search window should appear close to the mouse, below the treeview, above the treeview, etc. Or we could add some kind of positioning function like we have for menus. There is also another bug which asks for making the search popup optionally part of the same window.
closing out ancient bugs