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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Manual Autocompletion
From:       Ellis Whitehead <kde () ellisw ! net>
Date:       2002-01-17 17:59:05
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On Thursday 17 January 2002 11:28, dep wrote:
> On Thursday 17 January 2002 11:12, Jonathan Bacon wrote:
> | I seem to remember some discussion on the use of tab for completion
> | a while back, and some people were concerned that it conflicted
> | with controlling focus.
>
> yeah, i wondered about this, so i tried it on konqueror -- and all
> tab does is scroll through the list of choices. my thought it that an
> initial tab ought to be needed before that list is produced at all.
> in the application listing where the mimetype isn't tied to a
> particular app, tab does move focus around, but to no particularly
> good purpose, and in any case it's inconsistent -- the arrow keys now
> are used to scroll among the choices. and in kmail the list appears
> whether you want it or not, as with the others, but the tab function
> is unchanged, as with the application selection dialog -- a
> particularly odd behavior, in that to be of any use, messages have to
> be to *someone.*
>
> | I think we should definitly have some kind of standard
> | automcompletion ruleset throughout KDE, and I am sure this can be
> | done at library level.
>
> makes sense to me, and again, i think that <tab> ought to be it; at
> that point, changing focus isn't much of an issue -- and it would be
> consistent with the linux command prompt, which is a desirable
> feature. and please, please, please, let *some* initial keystroke (to
> underline it yet again, <tab> makes the most sense) invoke the
> autocompletion or autocompletion choices, rather than having them
> simply appear, unsummoned.

Although Tab would be consistent with the console, it would be utterly 
inconsistent with the dialog paradigm.  Scenario: You're in a text box, have 
entered in the text you want, you press tab to go to the next field, and 
suddenly completion text comes up.  I don't think that this is acceptable.


 
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