Disabling url completion of remote protocols by default

[Dawit Alemayehu]

On Wednesday 13 July 2005 13:52, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:24:59PM -0400, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The autocompletion provided by KURLCompletion causes problems for remote
> > protocols that support listing, e.g ftp and sftp. If the user tries to
> > edit the url in Konqueror's location bar (s)he is liable to get and error
> > message because KURLCompletion attempts to provide autocompletion for an
> > invalid URL. See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108812. The attached
> > patch disables completion support for remote protocols by default.
>
> Uhm, does that mean that if I type two letters of my most visited news
> site, it doesn't auto complete to it anymore?

This only applies to protocols that support listing ; so it will not affect 
http(s) for example...

> Btw, I recall a comment from me earlier that there should not be popups
> from the kio libs in automated processes (like autocompletion or eg.
> javascript), but only if an user enters it explicitly. Wasn't there an
> no-interactive option for that?

I am not sure...  But if there is then it needs to be turned on by default 
AFAIC...

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Dawit A.
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