Making path completion case insensitive

Diaa Sami diaasami at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 01:45:01 BST 2008


Hi Peter,

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:04:26 +0200, "Peter Penz" <peter.penz at gmx.at> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > Now to the technical part, regarding the support of case insensitive
> > completion in Dolphin, After wading through Dolphin and KDE source-code, I
> > found that KCompletion already has setIgnoreCase method and it's working
> > well, I just added a line in KUrlNavigator to setIgnoreCase(true) of the
> > KUrlCompletion object and it worked fine.
> >
> > So now the question is whether this should be an option for Dolphin or for
> > KUrlNavigator and consequently where the option will be, in dolphinrc or
> > somewhere else, as the implementation is already there in the core
> > libraries.
> 
> From my point of view there is no need for adding an option at all, just
> add 
> setIgnoreCase(true) to KUrlNavigator. As you said already: other well
> known 
> applications having autocompletion also use a case insensitive
> completion.

I thought users will ask to make it configurable but if you think it's ok then I think we can proceed.

> 
> I guess you don't have an SVN account yet. Should I commit this line of
> code 
> for you in the meantime?

Yes, I don't have one yet, you can add this line in the meantime, thanks

-- 
Diaa




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