[Epiphany] Re: replacing the combo with and autocompleting text entry

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

From: Nikolai Weibull <epiphany-list@pcppopper.org>
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> How would this text entry work?  You type the beginning of an URL and
> you get matching history items?  How would this work for bookmark
> category lookup?  My wish is that the entry would only show bookmark
> categories that you typed, and if none matched, or if the text being
> entered is an URL, perhaps go over to bookmars and/or history.

This is behavior, I think it can be changed, need to talk to marco. My 
proposal has little to do with autocompletion behavior that can be tuned 
(and probably should since we were never really happy with the 1.0 
behavior). 

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I need to clarify the technical details a bit here too. In gtk2.4 there are 
two new features. GtkEntry now has autocompletion. The autocompletion pretty 
much identically matches the current autocompletion in epiphany stable (1.0 
series, in terms of the mechanics of how it works. The results provided can 
be tuned however we like). The other new feature is GtkComboBox (i think 
that is the correct name) this combobox packs the autocompleting text entry 
and adds a arrow box that can be clicked to drop down a menu (think option 
menu). In epiphany we are using the drop down arrow currently to show recent 
history. 

Now imo, (and those of some other designers) I think that a) comboboxes look 
uneven hence the reason they are not commonly found in macintosh interface. 
b) Using fitts law the arrow is quite small so users are unlikely to click 
it anyway. ie we are wasting toolbar space. c) if we think quick access to 
recent history is important it should be in a more user visible and 
accessible place (ie the menus). d) we already have history in back button 
menu. e) marco shouldn't have to drop code at my whim 2 days after writing 
it (in fact if we decide to do this he should probably make me do it for 
being such a pita). 

dave