[Kst] KIO storm

[Matthew D Truch]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:23:28PM -0400, George Staikos wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 April 2005 18:22, Matthew D Truch wrote:
> > > Due to a bug in the data wizard, you don't see the problem there, but
> > > it's very clear from the vector dialog.  Any suggestions on how to fix
> > > this? Different approaches might include:
> > >
> > > 1) a timer to only check the contents every X seconds
> > > 2) a button only for non-local URLs that has to be clicked in order to
> > > check if the file is valid (network "stat" basically)
> > >
> > > This is rather major for 1.1.0.
> >
> > I suggest only checking if the file is valid after 1 second of no keys
> > being pressed, ie only when the person is clearly not typing.  There is
> > no need to check every second while someone is typing in a long path
> > slowly.
> 
>   it would probably have to be longer than one second then.  Not everyone 
> types that fast.  Probably about 2-3 seconds.  That, on the other hand, might 
> get irritating to people who do type fast.  It's a tough call I think...

You're right.  Please change my vote to number 2.  ;-)

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Matthew Truch
Department of Physics
Brown University
matt at truch.net
http://matt.truch.net/
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