On 12/17/06, Erlend Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 16 Dec 2006, at 19:14, Laurent Aguerreche wrote: > > > Le samedi 16 décembre 2006 à 20:15 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a > > écrit : > >> I hope the search-as-you-type feature is not implemented in t-s-t, > >> especially considering that loads of people type at different speeds, > >> and also because hitting enter shouldn't be much trouble after typing > >> the entry. Such a feature is unneeded elegance... > > > > This feature is already used in Spotlight and in the search tool in > > Vista. It makes the user thinking that the search system is going fast > > and it also show him whether he has to more detail its query or not. > > Furthermore user has a kind of interactivity. > > I agree that such a feature will hit slow computers (and I have > > such one > > so I understand what it is...) but it is also something that many > > users > > would like to have and something that some people could argue on to > > say > > that tracker is not fast (yes it's wrong...). > > Part of the advantage in search-as-you-type is that sometimes you > don't need to type the whole thing... the computer finds it faster > than you can finish typing it. Particularly with "unusual" words > (e.g. I use Spotlight to launch xmgrace, by the time I've finished > typing 'xmg' the top-hit is xmgrace... I just press down arrow and > enter to run it).
Now that's useful, only that the feature you mention, a listing of potential search terms, hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet, _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
