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Bug 611739 - Allow activating typeahead fine without '?' press
Allow activating typeahead fine without '?' press
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 608879
Product: banshee
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
1.5.4
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: 1.x
Assigned To: Banshee Maintainers
Banshee Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-03-03 20:47 UTC by Philip Gillißen
Modified: 2010-03-03 22:35 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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Part of Banshee, where I would like to enter names directly. (42.12 KB, image/png)
2010-03-03 20:47 UTC, Philip Gillißen 		Details

Description Philip Gillißen 2010-03-03 20:47:48 UTC 
Created attachment 155160 [details]
Part of Banshee, where I would like to enter names directly.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Select a list of music in the left column.
2. Click in the album list or in the artist list
3. Type the first letters of your favorite album/artist.

Expected behaviour:
The album/artist will be selected.

Current behaviour:
The key strokes are interpreted as commands and will be executed.

The behaviour is unknown and not expected. Other applications (in every Gnome drop-down-box) choose the options.

This enhancement would increase usability and smoothens the experience with Gnome and Banshee.
Comment 1 Gabriel Burt 2010-03-03 20:53:11 UTC 
This is supported, but you have to type '?' first (aka shift-/ on an en-US keyboard).  It was introduced in Banshee 1.5.3.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 399655 ***
Comment 2 Philip Gillißen 2010-03-03 21:23:10 UTC 
Thanks Gabriel for this hint.

I'm afraid I don't think this is the expected behaviour. I would never have guessed to type '?' and then search for the artist.
It will work for me, but it's not an expected behaviour.
Isn't it possible to implement this without the ? key?
Comment 3 Gabriel Burt 2010-03-03 21:26:42 UTC 
Guerda:  maybe, but it's tricky since Banshee uses single chars as keybindings - eg space pauses/plays.  See the duplicate bug for a more in depth discussion.
Comment 4 Philip Gillißen 2010-03-03 21:36:59 UTC 
Hm... I see it's tricky.
I'm a simple user, not a Banshee developer, so I can talk naive about internal behaviour...
Would it work if the commands were deactivated, if one of the two controls are focused?
Comment 5 Gabriel Burt 2010-03-03 21:41:57 UTC 
Yeah, that could work.  One concern w/ doing that is it could be confusing and decrease the value of those one-button shortcuts.

I'll re-open this and re-title it, to make it about getting rid of the ? requirement.
Comment 6 Michael Martin-Smucker 2010-03-03 22:33:39 UTC 
In that case, this is actually a duplicate of 608897.

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 608897 ***
Comment 7 Michael Martin-Smucker 2010-03-03 22:35:19 UTC 
Oops, or maybe not 608897. How about 608879?

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