[Okular-devel] [Bug 183906] New: Search progress box steals focus from progressive search text field

[Michael Liddle]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183906

           Summary: Search progress box steals focus from progressive search
                    text field
           Product: okular
           Version: 0.8
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: okular-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: michael at liddle.net.nz


Version:           0.8 (using 4.2.00 (KDE 4.2.0) "release 82.2",
KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop / openSUSE_11.0)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.25.20-0.1-default

The combination of a progressive search box and a focus-stealing "progress"
popup (not that any progress is actually shown) is not so good. KPDF did not do
this.

Often if one pauses during the entry of a search (even for only a very short
time), the progress box pops up and mouse interaction is required to get back
to the search text field. This feels awkward.

Suggest either doing away with progressive search (dispreferred), or making the
progress indicator a more "passive" status-bar notification (preferred), or no
progress indication at all (a la KPDF).

I don't think that simply making the time-to-detect-inactivity longer is a very
good solution, as it would still potentially involve an awkward stealing of
focus.


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