GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 99027
Browser-style autocompletion
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:52:19 UTC
i have no idea where the nautilus autocompletion in the location bar came from, but it is very non-standard, very hard to use, and very confusing. The standard autocompletion* used by mozilla, galeon, konqueror and windows is what users will expect and by happy coincedince is also a better alternative to what nautilus currently uses. * where a box pops down showing all possible files/folders that can be autocompleted and the user presses down and enter to select.
There was some discussion about this on gnome-hackers awhile ago. I actually believe that the current auto completion mechanism was mentioned as being better than the alternatives for accessibility reasons, but I may be wrong. Calum can you add insight here please.
The thread is here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-September/msg00210.html My summary would be that something akin to the mozilla/IE way would be superior, we just have to be careful not to use Tab as a way of accepting the suggested completion as this breaks keyboard navigation. (Not a problem with the current mozilla implementation, IIRC, I don't know how it works in galeon or konqueror).
Galeon recently messed up their autocompletion, but that is another story. It now relies on tab.
Ah. That's unfortunate.
Setting GNOMEVER2.5 because we will be using the new gtk which I'm pretty sure has an autocompletion widget, so using that will resolve this bug.
*** Bug 105780 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 138749 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 43045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 157889 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 133003 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 161820 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
from #161820: "Nautilus browser mode should should enhance the existent tab-completion with GtkEntryCompletion, so that the user could see what alternatives to choose from in a multi-choice situation."
*** Bug 310991 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Still valid, modifying summary and fields.
*** Bug 557463 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug 557463 is about a drop-down list, and NOT auto-completion. of course you will get a drop-down for a (good) auto-completion, but what i mean is without entering anything it should already have a drop-down list (recently used or most used)
*** Bug 577015 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Reassigning component.
Renaming for clarity. There hasn't been much discussion of desktop consistency here, but I presume we would want to take the same approach in the file selector and in Epiphany.
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