[rekonq] Urlbar improvements

[Andrea Diamantini]

On Wednesday 14 April 2010 08:00:41 megabigbug wrote:
> > Sure you don't need? I have 4 pcs at home called (without fantasy)
> > "server", "mediacenter" , "blackbox" (my notebook) and "wifebox" :). And
> > a router called "router".
> > Typing one of these names rekonq searched google for them as first
> > result, while now it rightly loads them.
> 
> just type http://server the first time
> the second time it will be in the history, and inserted as first item of
> the list.

Sure? Aren't "yourpreferredengine" searches shown before history?

> we can't interogate a dns each time the user press a key, the best we can
> do is interogate when he stops typing.

Sure :)

> > And I think the same is valid for words like "localhost" and so on.
> > Basically this is why the isHttp() check is unuseful.
> > 
> > Try to guess user ideas is unsane.
> 
> unsane ?
> 
> if we don't do that, all the concept of one bar (instead of two bar:
> history and search) is unsane.

I explained myself badly. Sorry. We obviously try every time to guess 
what user likes to load. And we propose hints. But we should stop here. We 
cannot force users to use just one of our hints.

> > And someone will always find one case
> > where he prefers one solution over the others proposed.
> 
> > I strongly suggest to just show engines results as they are implemented:
> I disagree with that.



> > > The only interesting thing of KUriFilter is protocol detection: for
> > > instance gg: kde: http: etc.
> > 
> > Again, no. Please, read again my previous mail. Without it more than one
> > half of the url typed will fail to load.
> 
> I agree it is useful after the user press enter, but only the protocol
> detection is interesting when he is typing.

Ah, ok. Agreed, too.

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