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Bug 645111 - Type-ahead in Artist List does not work in Banshee 1.9.5
Type-ahead in Artist List does not work in Banshee 1.9.5
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 608879
Product: banshee
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 1.x
Assigned To: Banshee Maintainers
Banshee Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-03-18 09:47 UTC by Chow Loong Jin
Modified: 2011-03-18 13:24 UTC
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Description Chow Loong Jin 2011-03-18 09:47:52 UTC 
Originally reported at:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/737406

Binary package hint: banshee

Maybe this sounds like a minor Issue, but it is a big leap backwards instead of Rhythmbox for me and Banshee should replace Rhythmbox in the near future.

Neigther the Artist list, nor the Album View supports type-ahead.
It is very comfortable in Rhythmbox to type "kru" in the Artist list and it jumps to "Kruder & Dorfmeister", in many cases this is much faster then using the Search Feature.

As i know the type-ahead feature is built into the GTK+ list widget. IMHO it should be very easy to implement this feature in the Artist List.

I tested the current Development Snapshot from the "Banshee Team PPA"
Comment 1 Michael Martin-Smucker 2011-03-18 13:24:39 UTC 
Typeahead should already work, but it needs to be triggered with the "?" key before you start typing.  This was done to avoid conflicts with Banshee's existing shortcuts, which don't use a modifier such as ctrl. But this functionality isn't consistent with other GTK applications, and it isn't particularly discoverable for users who don't closely follow bug reports and release notes, so I'm going to close this as a duplicate Bug 608879, which would make typeahead much more useful and discoverable.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 608879 ***