Re: autocompletion

Interesting,

You clearly didn't carry away the main point of my original e-mail; I
said I would accept a default that actually worked well for the majority
of people and that I did not equate that with the current settings. I
said that I thought the timeout implementation would be best for this.

As for your assertion that there isn't a sharp divide and that I'm the
wierd one here, I think it's worth pointing out that no one who has
got themselves stuck in this thread has actually said that they like
the auto dropdown. Some have made the argument that we 'need' it for
newbies who would fret and nash their teeth were it not on, but still
have reservations about using it themselves; heck, you fall into this
category.

I claim that the half and half distribution you assert is not backed
up by the feedback we've recieived here and is probably closer to the
other way around.

And mozilla is a bad example for you to bring up. It has rather nice
prefs for autocomplete, including a little 'this is what it looks like'
diagram. I'll happily follow the mozilla model. :-)

And I really want to get to the bottom of this: Why is it considered
better to force people to conform to the program instead of allowing the
program to better optimise itself to their usage habits? And as far as
I'm concerned, if they have to pull gconf-editor out, we're declaring
them to be a second class user: "This program doesn't care about you,
consider yourself grateful we didn't delete that pref completely."

The last suggestion I read from tko was for having *two* tabs to show
the dropdown, with no automatic at all. Is that really what you want?
now I'm confused.

--phil



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