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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Manual Autocompletion
From:       Ellis Whitehead <kde () ellisw ! net>
Date:       2002-01-17 20:49:13
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On Thursday 17 January 2002 15:17, dep wrote:
> On Thursday 17 January 2002 12:59, Ellis Whitehead wrote:
> | 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.
>
> i do not remember the location box in konqueror or the to: field in
> kmail being dialog boxes. in fact, unless something has gone terribly
> wrong in kde-3, they aren't. but you are right: if kmail and
> konqueror have turned into huge dialog boxes instead of applications,
> then it *isn't* acceptable. (the little applications dialog oughtn't
> have entry completion at all -- that's just one of those "because we
> could" features.)

Woops -- my fault.
 
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