form autocompletion behaviour

[Carsten Pfeiffer]

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On Wednesday 23 April 2003 13:52, Dirk Mueller wrote:

> > I think this would piss off some thousands of users. Key_Down as the only
> > means to navigate in the completion listbox is really annoying.
>
> Why is it annoying? Its logical, and it matches the behaviour of every
> other widget.

Completion is for users who type. And moving the fingers away from the 
standard position slows you down and distracts from typing. That's 
counter-productive. Tab doesn't impose those problems and is also well-known 
from the Shell.

> Why can't you switch to another input element by using <Tab>, like you can
> do with every other widget? What makes those completion popups special?
>
> re "Several thousand": have you seen the number of votes for this
> bugreport?

No. But I'm quite sure we get at least as many votes when we disable the 
tab-handling. Maybe we need to make it configurable.

Cheers
Carsten Pfeiffer
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