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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Search box in "open with..." dialog
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-08-12 0:10:07
Message-ID: 200508111810.08150.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Thursday 11 August 2005 04:03, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> 2005/8/11, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>:
> > yes, this would be a good idea. and no, i don't think you'd need a second
> > lineedit. as you type in the lineedit it would narrow the selections in
> > the listview below and if you type something that doesn't exist, it just
> > renders the list empty =)
>
> Right, but what if you type something that does exist, and it does not
> show in the list? For example, currently on my suse 9.3 I don't see
> "Dia" in the  list (which is actually a tree, BTW). Apparently, the
> .desktop file for Dia was built improperly. So, the only way I can
> invoke dia via konqueror is typing "dia" in the lineedit. But if you
> change the meaning of the lineedit to "search in the list", and I were
> to type "dia", the list would be empty...

that's fine. it would then run dia. when you select something from the list it 
doesn't automatically execute that item: it populates the lineedit first with 
the relevant application name and you either have to hit OK or double click 
the item in the list.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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