Am Montag, den 07.02.2005, 13:40 +0100 schrieb Daniel Borgmann: > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 11:33 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote: > > 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? > > I can see how this could be potentially useful for pasting _words_, but > isn't it completely redundant for pasting URIs? Why do you need to > complete or select a search engine for a working URI. And pasting URIs > is certainly more common than using Epiphany as a replacement for > gnome-dict I would assume, so that's probably why it was disabled by > default. It is a good question however, how to bring up the completion > popup without deleting some chars first...
Hrm the question is whether the proposed behavior actually hurts much. Another use-case would be any location popup which should allow to paste URI fragments and then popup (/usr/ in popup, pasting "long/path/to/some/file"). I gain (obviously Reinout as well), nobody else looses. > Maybe the most sane option would be to bring back the arrow button > (as much as I dislike it) to show at least the possible search > engines/smart bookmarks. Nobody likes it. Why should we resurrect it? > Or special case this situation and always show > the popup for search engines after pasting. It would in my opinion be confusing to only display some of the completion entries. > If both is not desired, > maybe at least a hidden key combination could be added to bring up the > popup (something like shift+downarrow). Independent of any other actions that might be taken, it listens like a good idea. -- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
