GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 271777
Overaggresive Auto Complete
Last modified: 2013-09-13 00:51:06 UTC
I hope that Outlook-isms aren't forcing some of the flow of autocomplete because it's working in a manner that is too aggresive. I'm attaching screen shots, related to this. Shot 1, I'm start to type in "mike@largo.com" and it hits my local contact list, gets someone with the name of "Mike" and correctly shows them in the pulldown, but also physically changes the entry widget. It should never change your text unless you accept it by arrowing down or hitting your right arrow. Shot 2, I continue to type in "mike@largo.com" and because it made the changes in the first shot to the entry text, I end up with "Mike@largo.com" not "mike@largo.com". Shot 3, I typed in "mpearlma@largo.com" put in a comma and a space and because it found that address it alters my entry and displays their full name instead of the address I have entered. The old version didn't do this. Text in that widget should only be altered if the user selects it with mouse or keyboard.
Created attachment 44665 [details] Typing in address, autocomplete alters entry widget without me picking.
Created attachment 44666 [details] I continue type, it no longer matches address book and "Mike" stays upper case.
Created attachment 44667 [details] Type in email address and hit comma and space and my text is altered without me selecting LDAP user name.
FYI in first shot, other bugs already reported are still valid. White space below names and lack of email addresses next to names in pulldown widget.
Created attachment 45023 [details] Trying to type in "mike@largo.com", other address book entries are changing the text in the "To:" box
*** Bug 274107 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 316963 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 52761 [details] Patch for replacing the partial auto-filled name with the user entered value
Comment on attachment 52761 [details] Patch for replacing the partial auto-filled name with the user entered value found a problem, will fix it.
Fixing this needs ABI break, so moving to 2.5.1
*** Bug 322770 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 346731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Right, this is ridiculous. Evolution is now at 2.8.1 and this is still not fixed. Here I am typing an email address; autocomplete suggests some name that matches the first few characters, capitalising my entry; I keep typing and the capitalisation remains. The only way I can see to get a non-capital first letter is to go back and delete and replace it after I have finished typing the whole address. So basically the same damn thing that was reported more than a year and a half ago. Who's responsible for fixing this? /rant
*** Bug 378106 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 97602 [details] [review] proposed eds patch for evolution-data-server;
Milan, commit to head/stable
Committed to trunk. Committed revision 8153. Committed to stable. Committed revision 8154.
*** Bug 522847 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***