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Bug 600034 - Problem with non ASCII characters in application search box
Problem with non ASCII characters in application search box
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 602155 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-29 13:58 UTC by António Lima
Modified: 2010-03-11 20:52 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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2009-10-29 13:58 UTC, António Lima 		Details

Description António Lima 2009-10-29 13:58:29 UTC 
Created attachment 146502 [details]
screenshot

Characters in my language (e.g. portuguese) which have, for example,  '^~ signs
are not placed properly in the word when searching for applications. This
happens both with the search box in the activities menu and with Alt+F2.


Here goes a screenshot.

Using gnome-shell built from git.
Comment 1 Dan Winship 2009-10-29 14:37:05 UTC 
yup, we need to be using St.Entry instead of Clutter.Text, to get input method support
Comment 2 Colin Walters 2009-10-29 15:36:51 UTC 
I got about 70% through porting the entry to CSS and St.Entry, the major problem here is that St.Entry implements hint-text by actually changing the text of the underlying Clutter.Text, which gets into all sorts of weird issues; e.g. getting the "text" property you'll get your hint back.  

Also St.Entry is designed to hide the hint when focused, but we want to keep the hint until the user actually types something

For the latter I started adding a "dehint-on-focus" property, for the former probably the right way is to patch St.Entry to use a secondary label layered on top for the hint, but not trivial.
Comment 3 Dan Winship 2009-11-17 16:46:47 UTC 
*** Bug 602155 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Florian Müllner 2010-03-11 20:52:32 UTC 
Both Alt-F2 and the search box in the overview have been ported to StEntry, so I'm gonna close the bug - feel free to reopen if there are still issues I am not aware of ...