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Bug 137871 - Start interactive search when pressing letter
Start interactive search when pressing letter
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkFileChooser
2.4.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
: 136814 140331 142457 143428 144755 145523 147978 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 90006
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-03-21 21:30 UTC by Kristof Vansant
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Kristof Vansant 2004-03-21 21:30:01 UTC 
I know if you press ctrl+f and then typ the text your looking for the
fileselector will select select it. But I was thinking about another easier
way in most cases to select a file. You select with the mouse the filelist
and press for example s and the selector goes to the first file that begins
with an s. If you push s again it goes to the next file with s. 

So people can use both ways depending on what they need.

PS: What you also could do is type s then if a is pressed in 1 sec after
the first keypress it goes to a file beginning with sa. if pressed after
one second it goes to the first file beginning with a.
Comment 1 Federico Mena Quintero 2004-03-21 22:26:25 UTC 
Retitling for clarity.
Comment 2 Kristof Vansant 2004-04-15 16:39:46 UTC 
this would be handy for all sorted listboxes btw
Comment 3 Federico Mena Quintero 2004-04-19 19:44:57 UTC 
*** Bug 140331 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Raphael Bosshard 2004-04-30 09:33:45 UTC 
Going down the list (as suggested above) can be done through the arrow keys.
Using letters to get the same behaviour is inconsistent.

Worse: It makes it impossible to jump directly to an list item by typing its name.

I'd suggest a different behaviour: Type x and the view jumps to the first item
beginning with x. Type s again and the view jumps to the first item beginning
with xx and so on.
Comment 5 Federico Mena Quintero 2004-05-31 17:16:49 UTC 
*** Bug 142457 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Federico Mena Quintero 2004-06-01 16:20:54 UTC 
*** Bug 143428 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Federico Mena Quintero 2004-06-02 16:28:30 UTC 
*** Bug 136814 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Kristof Vansant 2004-06-05 08:51:58 UTC 
this didn't make it into gtk+ 2.4.2 ? :(
Comment 9 Elijah Newren 2004-06-19 18:46:08 UTC 
Mass changing gtk+ bugs with target milestone of 2.4.2 to target 2.4.4, as
Matthias said he was trying to do himself on IRC and was asking for help with. 
If you see this message, it means I was successful at fixing the borken-ness in
bugzilla :)  Sorry for the spam; just query on this message and delete all
emails you get with this message, since there will probably be a lot.
Comment 10 Federico Mena Quintero 2004-06-21 17:50:18 UTC 
*** Bug 144755 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Olav Vitters 2004-07-07 05:23:20 UTC 
*** Bug 145523 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Vincent Noel 2004-07-21 20:32:21 UTC 
*** Bug 147978 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Vincent Noel 2004-08-03 22:49:49 UTC 
The behavior explained in comment 4 has been implemented in Gtk+ CVS (2.5.1),
closing.