Re: autocompletion

Alan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:33:21PM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Le lun 25/11/2002 ? 15:18, Jeff Waugh a ?crit :
> > <quote who="Eivind Tagseth">
> > 
> > > It's slow and noisy.
> > 
> > Slow I don't grok - it keeps up with my typing, and I'm not slow. Noisy,
> > perhaps, but does that warrant removing this affordance?
> > 
> 
> I have to agree there, sometimes the autocompletion "blocks" my typing
> for something like 1 second (and I'm using a p4). But I agree that the
> only right thing to do there is to try to fix this slowness :)

While I admit I haven't used 1.3 yet (so shut up alan!), don't other
browers wait for a pause in typing before they display the auto
completion?  If I type full bore in the IE/mozilla location bars
autocompletion does NOT pop up.  However, if I type ofr a bit and then
stop, it waits ~1s or so and then pops up (down) the drop down.  

Copying this behaviour (assuming we don't already, like I said, I
haven't used 1.3 yet, waiting for garnome's next release :) would solve
both problems wouldn't it?

 - no slowdown for bast typers
 - no sudden jarring of a dropdown coming down as soon as you type
 - no need for a pref
 - available for both the newbie and experieneced user
 - can still use TAB for explicitly popping up the window

Of course, G2 may already do this, and if so, please ignore me :)

alan

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