On Apr 24, 2012, at 7:04 AM, Jesse Butler wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2012, at 9:54 AM, Drew Fisher wrote: > >> Round 4! >> >> https://cr.opensolaris.org/action/browse/caiman/drewfish/7161344_4/webrev/ >> >> The latest webrev now incorporates spelling of words. If you pause for more >> than 2 seconds between key presses, it reverts back to "first letter" >> jumping. <backspace> will clear your spelling buffer, allowing you to >> start over. >> >> I'd really like to have folks play with this a little bit because this is >> starting to feel clunky (to me, anyway). The 2 second delay seems like >> *way* too much, but I type fast so I have a poor frame of reference. >> >> Could I get some folks to try this out and give me some feedback? > > Hey Drew- > > I think I like where the idea of the 2s delay was headed, but in practice I > don't like it. Something that happens often with me, with systems in EST and > Central, I sometimes go to Central, then correct myself. With the 2s wait to > get to a new first letter, I end up in Central, hitting "E" over and over and > just staying there. Yes, you stop 2s and then hit "E", all is well. But, > that's a fairly odd user experience.
yea I totally agree. Either have a buffer where a user can type when they want (ideally, with the contents of the buffer in the status line), or lose it entirely. It's pretty unintuitive. --S > > Honestly, I liked just hitting the first letter repeatedly. I have seen that > in other tools, and it feels natural to me. > > To be explicit in what I'm referring to: hit "C" and land on "Central Time", > hit "C" again and land on "Central Time - Indiana - Perry County", hit "E", > land on "Eastern Time". etc. > > So… while I hate to unwind so much work, in my opinion the 2s delay to pick > up a new first letter seems overkill, and a bit counterintuitive. > > $.02 > /jb > >> >> ssh indiana-build >> export >> PYTHONPATH=/net/mox.us.oracle.com/tank/code/cr_7161344/proto/root_i386-nd/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages >> sudo sysconfig create-profile -g location >> >> This will bring up just the timezone screen and won't actually change the >> timezone on indiana-build. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Drew >> >> >> >> >> >> On 4/20/12 3:34 PM, Drew Fisher wrote: >>> >>> Good afternoon! >>> >>> I'd like to get some discussion (and a possible code review) for the >>> following CR: >>> >>> 7161344 ScrollWindows should support letter jumping >>> >>> https://cr.opensolaris.org/action/browse/caiman/drewfish/CR_7161344/webrev/ >>> >>> >>> This fix adds the ability for ScrollWindows to *optionally* allow the >>> author to enable "first letter" jumping. I made this optional because >>> users may not want letter jumping for short scroll windows. Before going >>> any further, I wanted to see if folks had issues or concerns with this >>> approach. >>> >>> If you'd like to try this out do the following: >>> >>> export >>> PYTHONPATH=/net/mox.us.oracle.com/tank/code/cr_7161344/proto/root_i386-nd/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages >>> sudo sysconfig create-profile >>> (don't worry, you're not going to reconfigure your system) >>> Proceed through the screens until you get to the timezone screen and try >>> the letter jumping. >>> >>> Once done, simply hit F9 to exit (when you do this, you'll hit another bug >>> with ScrollWindows - it's 7160551 but don't worry about it) >>> >>> Let me know if you have questions! I'd like to get this in the gate so >>> Seth stops sending me angry email. :) >>> >>> >>> -Drew >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
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