Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> 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,
No I'm not refering to explicitly coding a system to show you potential
search terms... find as you type is enough to do the above.
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