[Konversation-devel] [Bug 169959] Remember completion mode of Join Channel dialog channel input field

[Jon Brandvein]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169959





--- Comment #5 from Jon Brandvein <workaphobia gmail com>  2008-09-14 19:45:52 ---
I'm confused by that statement. If Automatic is the KDE default, then why does
the literal option "Default" choose Dropdown and only appear in the menu when
Dropdown is not already the current selection? I don't remember using Automatic
completion in any other KDE apps, which is why I suspect it's Konversation
that's responsible for this odd behavior.

The two other text fields I can think of off the top of my head where
completion plays a heavy role are Konqueror's URL bar and the Alt+F2 Run
Command dialog. For both of these fields, the default is most definitely
Dropdown. Moreover, if I change it to another completion type, it does remember
it the next time the dialog or application is invoked (previous instances
remain unaffected). Are you implying that both of these applications make a
specific effort to remember these settings and that the KDE widget system
doesn't do it for them? If so, I suggest Konversation take whatever action is
needed to mirror them. But I don't think that's the case, again because of the
fact that the "Default" literal option chooses Dropdown even in Konversation.

My original problem was that I find the Join Channel dialog less usable because
I had to take an extra step in order to join certain channels that have names
that are prefixes of other channel names, like #kde versus #kde-bugs. This
extra step was typing a bogus character to invalidate the completion, then
backspace. KDE already has the wonderful ability to customize the completion
type (which I was unaware of before Peter's response), but that is
unfortunately moot if I still have to take my hands off the keyboard and
navigate a context menu every single time the dialog's opened, just to make use
of it that one time.

Is there a place where I can change/verify the system wide default (i.e., some
part of a kcontrol module)? Because if that will change konversation's join
channel dialog, I'll consider that a workaround, but not the end of the story.
In my view, I still don't have an explanation for why konversation is different
from Konqueror and Run Command in defaulting to Automatic.


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