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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Search box in "open with..." dialog
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-08-15 10:59:38
Message-ID: 200508151259.39209.zander () kde ! org
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On Friday 12 August 2005 00:03, 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...

Showing the application names in the path as an extra branch in the tree 
in such a case would be a nice thing as well.

- -- 
Thomas Zander
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