Re: [Epiphany] url bar tab completion

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 12:42, Alan wrote:
> First of all let me say that epiphany 1.0[.1] is the first version that 
> I've made a serious go at using, and my previous reservations from offside
> experience (ie: the bookmark system) were put to rest.  Marco and team,
> excellent job!

Hi Alan,

thanks :)

> The one thing that is preventing me from using Epi full time, and one
> small strange bug I noticed, and thought I'd throw them out here before
> I bug 'em at b.g.o
> 
> 1 - Tab completion for the URL bar either isn't working yet or isn't working
> well, IMHO.  It appears you have to use the down arrows to select
> entries from the drop down completion instead of tab.  Any reason for
> this?  Mozilla seems far more comfortable for me in this respect, as you
> can just hit tab and go down the list that's dropped down, and ESC to
> cancel the completion and go back to the URL bar.  This might be
> something to do with being right handed and not wanting to move my right
> hand from the mouse to the arrow keys, or moving my left hand over from
> it's home position.

Without going in the actual problem, I think, luckily, this is no more
our responsibility. Basically we cant do interface changes on stable
branch and on head we already ported to the new gtk entry that has
support for autocompletion built in. I dont think it support tab atm,
there was concerns about accessibility. In any case, this should be
discussed on gtk/usability lists. We will just inherit the gtk behavior.

> 2 - A bit of a more odd one.  If you select text in text area it is
> highlighted as selected text as per normal.  Then right click, and the 
> text is still selected but appears to not be (no highlighting).  Release 
> the mouse button and it returns to looking like it's selected.  I don't
> remember this happening under mozilla, and it doesn't under gedit, so I
> think this may be an epiphany specific bug.

This is a bad one. It's a mozilla embedding problem, if I remember
correctly they are unselecting on focus out for some reason. Mozilla
popups are not separate windows I think so they dont have problems.
Probably this is also what makes Copy from context menu not work. Really
need to look in it.

Marco