Re: [PATCH] Port GtkTreeView-style typeahead to NautilusIconContainer

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Mit, 2005-10-05 at 19:58 -0300, Matthew Thomas wrote:
> On 3 Oct, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> >
> > Attached patch replaces the previous typeahead implementation of
> > NautilusIconContainer by a port of the implementation of GtkTreeView. 
> > It is heavily based on that code, just adapted to fit in nautilus. 
> > This
> > adds the visible text search entry and the arrow keys / mouse wheel 
> > will work as in GtkTreeView.
> >
> > This might cause usability issues as the arrow keys behave differently
> > when in typeahead mode.
> > ...
> 
> Indeed. Perhaps you could go the other way, and port the Nautilus 
> behavior to GtkTreeView instead? :-) The frequent failure of the 
> Up/Down keys to go to the previous/next item in GtkTreeView (they stop 
> working at the edges of the subset of items starting with the text 
> you've entered) aggravates me about a dozen times every day. (I use 
> gedit at work.) And the pensile text field looks silly, too, though 
> that's more subjective.

That's what I've done before for nautilus internal purposes[1] ;) but I
definitively like the new GtkTreeView behavior better. For example if
you have a folder and a file whose names start with the same characters,
you currently have to type in almost the whole filename in nautilus;
with my patch (or in file chooser) you're able to find your file very
quickly by just pressing the down arrow key once.

Jürg

[1]
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2004-January/msg00050.html
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Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>