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Bug 111763 - Use proper combo box?
Use proper combo box?
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-applets
Classification: Other
Component: mini-commander
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-applets Maintainers
gnome-applets Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-04-28 16:46 UTC by Calum Benson
Modified: 2010-01-24 01:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
GnomeEntry patch for mini commander (9.12 KB, patch)
2005-03-29 00:14 UTC, Baris Cicek 		needs-work Details | Review

Description Calum Benson 2003-04-28 16:46:29 UTC 
Is there a good reason why mini-commander doesn't just use a proper combo
box for its history feature?  It would just make the default layout
fractionally wider on  those panels where the two buttons are currently
stacked vertically (and swap the order on the ones where they aren't), but
that's about it.  Is it because the automcompletion stuff couldn't easily
be added to a standard combo?

Generally it's a bad idea to invent new ways of doing things for which
standard controls already exist... you just waste time trying to duplicate
the keynav and accessibility features that somebody's already written, and
the user has to figure out how to use something that they should already
know how to use.
Comment 1 Kevin Vandersloot 2003-05-01 01:31:53 UTC 
Good idea. I'm working on it.
Comment 2 Danielle Madeley 2004-10-30 09:19:10 UTC 
This would be easy to implement with GtkEntryCompletion.
Comment 3 Danielle Madeley 2005-01-03 18:03:54 UTC 
I think this would be easy enough to do. Marking as easy-fix.
Comment 4 Baris Cicek 2005-03-29 00:12:23 UTC 
I hacked over this a bit, and added a patch. Instead of GtkEntryCompletion, i
used GnomeEntry widget to put combo box there, and it'll use mini-commander's
own command completion rouitine, just history will be shown in combo box. I
think that's the reason, reporter filed this bug.
Comment 5 Baris Cicek 2005-03-29 00:14:23 UTC 
Created attachment 39369 [details] [review]
GnomeEntry patch for mini commander

Patch is against Gnome 2.8 cvs head.
Comment 6 Danielle Madeley 2005-08-03 17:01:48 UTC 
We really should use GtkEntryCompletion so that we can offer completion for
macros and other features, as well as icons for applications if we can find
them. Really I would like to bundle this into something I have been playing with
called Auric.

http://live.gnome.org/AuricApplet
Comment 7 Danielle Madeley 2006-08-07 01:08:10 UTC 
Deskbar replaces this applet.