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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: Review Request: Add simple Type-and-Select feature to Folderview
From:       "Shantanu Tushar Jha" <jhahoneyk () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-01-22 19:14:46
Message-ID: 20100122191446.13184.67559 () localhost
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> On 2010-01-21 23:18:16, Fredrik Höglund wrote:
> > The code looks good, but I'm slightly concerned about the usability aspect in \
> > that this works differently from type and search in Dolphin. There's also no \
> > visual feedback when the search is reset.
> > 
> > I think it would be a good idea to get some input on this from our usability \
> > experts.

I think you're talking about the cycling which occurs on repeated presses of the same \
key.I did some experiments on Dolphin and found that if we have dirs 'pizza' \
'pppinfo' 'press' then pressing 'ppp' selects 'press' (due to the cycling) instead of \
'pppinfo'. This is quite ambiguous too because it depends on what the user meant. In \
my case, I meant it to be pppinfo. But as you said, folderview shouldn't differ from \
dolphin, or we'll have inconsistency. So we can- 1. Make the folderview behave in the \
same way as Dolphin. or,
2. See if someone has a better solution? (usability)

Will make changes according to further comments :)


- Shantanu


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On 2010-01-22 19:13:29, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
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> (Updated 2010-01-22 19:13:29)
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> 
> Review request for Plasma and Fredrik Höglund.
> 
> 
> Summary
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> 
> This patch intends to provide a simple selection method to select icons. Its \
> intended to be able to select a file plasma-desktop.desktop by just typing initial \
> characters, "plas" for example. Comments on the hard-coded 2000ms welcome. If the \
> user doesn't press any key within 2000ms after the last key press, the match string \
> clears. 
> 
> This addresses bug 187241.
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187241
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> 
> Diffs
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> 
> trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/plasma/applets/folderview/iconview.h 1078728 
> trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/plasma/applets/folderview/iconview.cpp 1078728 
> 
> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/2659/diff
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> Works with the latest trunk.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Shantanu
> 
> 

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