Re: [gedit-list] Completion survey

[Andrea Del Signore <sejerpz tin it>]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 01:16 +0100, Perriman wrote:
> Hi Andrea!!
Hi Perriman,

> 
> Woh!!! I like vtg!!
Thanks but there is still a lot of work left to do ;)


> I currently have GscTriggerAutowords. This trigger call to completion
> when the user writes directly in the GtkTextView with a delay.
> 
> Really, this trigger call to a new completion when the user writes a
> new character instead of call to completion once and when the user
> writes a new character, filter the current content (with the filter).
> 
> I will add a new filter type to the popup. Something like
> "HIDDEN_FILTER" and you can call to completion once and then change the
> current filter by code without display the filter widget and without
> get the focus. With that you could show the popup without the filter
> visible and the user can write into the GtkTextView an you can modify
> the filter programmatically.

Cool! This is what I asked for. Thanks.


> I will change an internal management of the apply signal in the
> proposal. I think this is very slow because when you create a new
> Proposal, it register an apply signal with a default function. I will
> remove this apply signal in the proposal and I will add a new apply
> function in the iface and, If you want to change the default apply
> function, you will must to overwrite this function instead of connect
> to the proposal apply signal. I think it is a lot of faster than
> register and connect to a signal.

I offer my help to test the new implementation when ready.

For now my solution is to build a cache of 500 Proposal items on plugin
instantiation.

> Sorry, It was my first package and I had a lot of problems and forget
> clean the debug messages.
> 
No problem ;) 
I appreciated the packages availability a lot!

> > 
> > 
> > Have a nice day and thanks for all your work. Regards,
> > Andrea
> > 
> > P.S.
> > I think that the Devhelp plugin will be great if integrated in a 
> > "calltip" component.
> 
> +1
> 
> Regards,
> 	Perriman

Ciao,
Andrea

P.S.
If you need to contact me on IRC I'm usually around gnome and vala
channels on GIMPNet with the nick sejerpz