[Sugar-devel] [Announcing] unstable 0.103.2 release and API, UI and String freeze.

[Sam P.]

Ah, I see now Quozl!  I thought your solution was totally different.

Please check out this patch:  https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/476

On Tue Jan 20 2015 at 9:10:59 am James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:19:23AM +0000, Sam P. wrote:
> > Hi James,
> > On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 2:51:29 pm James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> >     [...]
> >     Tested on Fedora 20 on XO-4.
> >
> >     The autocomplete of activity name in search entry (2ac6c3c) does
> work,
> >     though it can be disconcerting.  Perhaps it should mark the
> completion
> >     as selected text, so that further typing will erase it.  Be a slow
> >     typer and type "C l o c k" and you get "Clockock".
> >
> > Hum, how slow is a slow typer?  I need to be typing at about 2 chars
> > per second, but what is it like on the XO4?
>
> Children with developmental disabilities or in the early stage of
> keyboard learning will type slowly enough to trigger this problem.  It
> can be easily reproduced on an XO-4 by typing one key every two
> seconds.  I'm happy for this to be the test case descriptor.
>
> > I don't think that selecting the text is the right approach.  If I
> > am a slow typer, I would appreciate the computer autocompleting me
> > :)
>
> I disagree.  I think selecting the completion is the right approach.
> It is how Firefox handles the issue.
>
> That way, when the user does not observe the completion, any further
> typing will immediately erase the completion.
>
> Perhaps you haven't understood what I mean.  Imagine this:
>
> - empty field,
>
> - press 'c', the 'c' appears,
>
> - after one second delay, autocomplete is ambiguous (clock, chat,
>   record, physics, stopwatch, calculate), so nothing further happens,
>
> - press 'l', the 'l' appears,
>
> - after one second delay, autocomplete is unambiguous, so 'ock' is
>   added to the text, and 'ock' is to be highlighted as selected text,
>
> - press 'o', the selected 'ock' is erased, and the 'o' appears,
>
> - after one second delay, autocomplete is unambiguous, so 'ck' is
>   added to the text, and 'ck' is highlighted as selected text,
>
> At the moment, without a fix, 'Clocko' is in the field.
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>
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