Re: GTK+-2.x planning

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com> writes:

> At 10:13 AM 3/13/2002 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> >What do you think of the current incremental search triggered with
> ><control>s?
> It doesn't seem efficient to me for moving quickly through a list of
> items.  What is the reasoning behind requiring the user to press a key
> to start the search, rather than having the search start automatically?

I18N.  You can't easily use input methods that way.  Also, I got very
frustrated accidentally hitting letters when I thought I had focus
elsewhere.  Maybe I'm just klutzy, but when it worked like that, it
drove me nuts.

Thanks,
-Jonathan