[Usability] GtkEntryCompletion: Popup Completion Window on Paste?

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

I've filed a bug report [1] against GtkEntryCompletion, which is the GTK
+ widget for adding URI entries - in the File Chooser and in Epiphany,
for instance. I complained that if you insert text from the clipboard,
the popup isn't displayed.

My use-case is that I quiet often see an URI that isn't a link (or have
it in a text file), and I want to open it in nautilus, or I simply want
to use the built-in search mechanism to look up a word in a dictionary.
So I press ctrl-N in an existing nautilus window (or click the Ephy
launcher) and paste the URI into the blank address bar of a new window.
My problem is that I have to insert a new character and delete it again
to make Ephy popup the completion window - and I need the window if I
want to select among the available search engines.

Matthias Clasen rejected this request, argueing that users complained
and he once discussed it with Seth who suggested to not popup on paste.

Comments, anybody?

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165714

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Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>