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Bug 766626 - Incremental search should prefer beginning of words
Incremental search should prefer beginning of words
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkFileChooser
3.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
Federico Mena Quintero
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-05-18 19:39 UTC by Lukas
Modified: 2018-05-02 17:10 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Lukas 2016-05-18 19:39:21 UTC 
It's very likely that users will be using the incremental search feature in the file chooser like they used the old typeahead. I.e. it's more likely to type in the beginning of a file/directory name than some part in the middle. Ordering/selection of search results should reflect that.

Simplified artificial test case:
Create folder with these files:
"afdhbcjgdfhgjdhfgj"
"bc"

Navigate to his folder, type "bc" into the search, note that the first file gets selected.
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-02 17:10:14 UTC 
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