[dolphin] [Bug 424416] Type-ahead selection depends on typing speed

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424416

--- Comment #2 from php4fan at gmail.com ---
This is serious and really needs to be fixed. This renders type-ahead select
COMPLETELY unusable (unless you are an INFALLIBLE *and* very fast typer who
NEVER, ever, makes a mistake while typing - and note that even very good very
fast typers usually do a fair amount of mistakes but they are very fast at
correcting them on the go, and that's something you cannot do here).

It's not just the "I need to be fast" issue (which is bad enough in itself),
the really bad part is - actually, are - the "I have no feedback when I do
mistakes" part, and the "I need to start over whenever I make a mistake" part.
Note that when you do have to start over, you cannot do that too fast. So
whatever the time threshold is, it will always be bad. Because if it's too
short, it's too demanding in you having to type very fast, but if it's longer,
it will force you to wait longer before you can startover (and without knowing
how much you need to wait because you have no feedback whatsoever).

Note that, if I start typing "abc" and it matches a file to that point, and
then I type an additional "x", so I've now typed "abcx" and there is no match
at this point, it can mean one of two things: (a) there is no file that starts
with the four characters I've typed; or (b) I have mistyped the last character.
And since I cannot see what I have typed, I have no way of being 100% sure
which one happened. If it happens that there really is no match, and I have
actually typed correctly, and I really expected a matching file to exist, then
I'm guaranteed to try it again a couple times to be sure. 

I don't know how somebody could think it was a remotely acceptable UI design
choice to allow the user to type without a box somewhere where you see what you
are typing AND correct it (that is, delete characters with backspace and
retype), and edit, select, and copy and paste, etc.

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