Bug#444499: field completion / suggestion often gets in the way

2011-08-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 09:56:28PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
 
 On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:57:02PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
  On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 05:13:45PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
   On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 09:33:47AM +, Frederik Eaton wrote:
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 02:26:08AM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
 * Frederik Eaton (frede...@ofb.net) wrote:
  Package: iceweasel
  Version: 2.0.0.6-1
  Severity: normal
  
  Hello,
  
  I will give an example to illustrate my point. I have tried it out 
  in
  safe mode.
  
  (1) I enter minimal entropy martingale measure in Google's search
  text box
  
  (2) When the results come up, I want change my search text to 
  minimal
  martingale measure. I click just after the word entropy in the 
  text
  box at the top of the results page, and the completion minimal
  entropy martingale measure appears appears in a menu below the box
  (even though that same string is also already in the box). 
  (Actually,
  this happens only about 50% of the time, it may be necessary to try
  clicking at different parts of the word) Since I had to click on the
  search box to change the text, my cursor is right near the box. 
  When I
  take my hand off the mouse to type, the cursor happens to move down 
  a
  few pixels (this happens a lot when I use a trackpad, but also when 
  I
  use my optical mouse), briefly crossing over the menu of 
  completions.
  
  (3) This results in the single completion being highlighted. 
  Inexplicably, it stays highlighted even when my mouse has moved off 
  of
  it to below the bottom of the menu. Even more strangely, it stays
  highlighted when I start typing in the text box.
  
  (4) I hit delete a few times to delete the word entropy, but the
  completion minimal martingale martingale measure, the text of my
  original search, is still highlighted.
  
  (5) I hit enter. This doesn't result in a new search with the new
  contents of the search box, as I had hoped; but it results in the
  completion (a useless completion, no less, since it was the original
  text of the box) being selected, and the edit I just made
  disappearing, and the text minimal martingale martingale measure
  returning to the search box, and no search happening.
  
  So, completion as implemented in this program (is it possible to 
  turn
  it off, by the way?) is basically incompatible with my mouse moving
  down a few pixels after I take my hand off of it. That seems rather
  demanding - the mouse is an analog device and the cursor can't be
  expected to stay 100% still all the time. In general, it seems like 
  a
  good idea for a highlighted menu selection to become unhighlighted
  when the user starts typing, even in the case where it is still 
  under
  the cursor (which it is not, in my example above), since typing
  generally indicates a lack of intent to click.
  
  Thank you in advance - I hope that this can be eventually fixed...
 
 Is this any better with the latest Iceweasel?

Hello,

The problematic behaviour seems to be unchanged in 3.0.3.
   
   As I fail to reproduce this in version 3.0.6 and I doubt the behaviour
   changed since 3.0.3, I'm wondering if you're talking about the google
   search box on the top right of the iceweasel user interface, or the
   google search field on the google web page. If the latter, then this is
   behavioural bug of the google web page.
  
  Thanks for the response. That's a very reasonable misunderstanding -
  Google has added completion to its search box since this bug was filed
  two years ago, and is therefore no longer a good way to reproduce the
  bug.
  
  ***
  
  I can still reproduce the bug in a plain HTML text input box under
  3.0.15. If you need an example of a plain HTML text input box, there
  is probably a more canonical one but ... here:
  http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1C/
  
  These are the fixes which I suggest still need to be implemented:
  
  1. Unhighlight completion menu selection when the mouse leaves the
  menu rectangle
  
  2. Unhighlight completion menu selection when user starts typing (e.g. 
  delete key, as in above report)
  
  3. Don't include completions which exactly match the text of the box
  
  4. Don't list completions when the insertion point is not at the end
  of the text. (This is already partially implemented - if I defocus the
  box, and then click in the middle, no completion menu shows up. But if
  I click at the end of the box to get a completion menu, and then click
  in the middle without defocussing, the completion menu stays around)
  
  5. Allow user to turn off completion (?)
  
  Best wishes,
  
  Frederik
  
 
 I have tried Ubuntu firefox 5.0.
 

Bug#444499: field completion / suggestion often gets in the way

2011-08-02 Thread Frederik Eaton

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:57:02PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
 On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 05:13:45PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
  On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 09:33:47AM +, Frederik Eaton wrote:
   On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 02:26:08AM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
* Frederik Eaton (frede...@ofb.net) wrote:
 Package: iceweasel
 Version: 2.0.0.6-1
 Severity: normal
 
 Hello,
 
 I will give an example to illustrate my point. I have tried it out in
 safe mode.
 
 (1) I enter minimal entropy martingale measure in Google's search
 text box
 
 (2) When the results come up, I want change my search text to minimal
 martingale measure. I click just after the word entropy in the text
 box at the top of the results page, and the completion minimal
 entropy martingale measure appears appears in a menu below the box
 (even though that same string is also already in the box). (Actually,
 this happens only about 50% of the time, it may be necessary to try
 clicking at different parts of the word) Since I had to click on the
 search box to change the text, my cursor is right near the box. When I
 take my hand off the mouse to type, the cursor happens to move down a
 few pixels (this happens a lot when I use a trackpad, but also when I
 use my optical mouse), briefly crossing over the menu of completions.
 
 (3) This results in the single completion being highlighted. 
 Inexplicably, it stays highlighted even when my mouse has moved off of
 it to below the bottom of the menu. Even more strangely, it stays
 highlighted when I start typing in the text box.
 
 (4) I hit delete a few times to delete the word entropy, but the
 completion minimal martingale martingale measure, the text of my
 original search, is still highlighted.
 
 (5) I hit enter. This doesn't result in a new search with the new
 contents of the search box, as I had hoped; but it results in the
 completion (a useless completion, no less, since it was the original
 text of the box) being selected, and the edit I just made
 disappearing, and the text minimal martingale martingale measure
 returning to the search box, and no search happening.
 
 So, completion as implemented in this program (is it possible to turn
 it off, by the way?) is basically incompatible with my mouse moving
 down a few pixels after I take my hand off of it. That seems rather
 demanding - the mouse is an analog device and the cursor can't be
 expected to stay 100% still all the time. In general, it seems like a
 good idea for a highlighted menu selection to become unhighlighted
 when the user starts typing, even in the case where it is still under
 the cursor (which it is not, in my example above), since typing
 generally indicates a lack of intent to click.
 
 Thank you in advance - I hope that this can be eventually fixed...

Is this any better with the latest Iceweasel?
   
   Hello,
   
   The problematic behaviour seems to be unchanged in 3.0.3.
  
  As I fail to reproduce this in version 3.0.6 and I doubt the behaviour
  changed since 3.0.3, I'm wondering if you're talking about the google
  search box on the top right of the iceweasel user interface, or the
  google search field on the google web page. If the latter, then this is
  behavioural bug of the google web page.
 
 Thanks for the response. That's a very reasonable misunderstanding -
 Google has added completion to its search box since this bug was filed
 two years ago, and is therefore no longer a good way to reproduce the
 bug.
 
 ***
 
 I can still reproduce the bug in a plain HTML text input box under
 3.0.15. If you need an example of a plain HTML text input box, there
 is probably a more canonical one but ... here:
 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1C/
 
 These are the fixes which I suggest still need to be implemented:
 
 1. Unhighlight completion menu selection when the mouse leaves the
 menu rectangle
 
 2. Unhighlight completion menu selection when user starts typing (e.g. 
 delete key, as in above report)
 
 3. Don't include completions which exactly match the text of the box
 
 4. Don't list completions when the insertion point is not at the end
 of the text. (This is already partially implemented - if I defocus the
 box, and then click in the middle, no completion menu shows up. But if
 I click at the end of the box to get a completion menu, and then click
 in the middle without defocussing, the completion menu stays around)
 
 5. Allow user to turn off completion (?)
 
 Best wishes,
 
 Frederik
 

I have tried Ubuntu firefox 5.0.

Above is an an old email in which I list the things that need to be
fixed, at the very bottom. According to my testing, it appears they
have made change #2, but not 1, 3, 4 or 5. I guess #2 was the most
important one. I am a bit surprised that #5 is not 

Bug#444499: field completion / suggestion often gets in the way

2011-07-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 02:12:30PM +, Frederik Eaton wrote:
 On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:48:21AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
  On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:57:02PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
   Thanks for the response. That's a very reasonable misunderstanding -
   Google has added completion to its search box since this bug was filed
   two years ago, and is therefore no longer a good way to reproduce the
   bug.
   
   ***
   
   I can still reproduce the bug in a plain HTML text input box under
   3.0.15. If you need an example of a plain HTML text input box, there
   is probably a more canonical one but ... here:
   http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1C/
  
  This gets more understandable, but for me (but under 3.5.6) the
  completion thing is not as annoying as you describe it. Could you give a
  try to the iceweasel version from squeeze ?
 
 I'm sorry for the long delay in replying. I tried version 3.5.8 and
 still found the same problems. Can you perhaps be more specific about
 what you think is fixed?

How about version 5.0 that you can either get from unstable or
http://mozilla.debian.net/ ?

Mike



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Bug#444499: field completion / suggestion often gets in the way

2011-07-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 03:37:32PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
 On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 01:54:37PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
  On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 02:12:30PM +, Frederik Eaton wrote:
   On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:48:21AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:57:02PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
 Thanks for the response. That's a very reasonable misunderstanding -
 Google has added completion to its search box since this bug was filed
 two years ago, and is therefore no longer a good way to reproduce the
 bug.
 
 ***
 
 I can still reproduce the bug in a plain HTML text input box under
 3.0.15. If you need an example of a plain HTML text input box, there
 is probably a more canonical one but ... here:
 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1C/

This gets more understandable, but for me (but under 3.5.6) the
completion thing is not as annoying as you describe it. Could you give a
try to the iceweasel version from squeeze ?
   
   I'm sorry for the long delay in replying. I tried version 3.5.8 and
   still found the same problems. Can you perhaps be more specific about
   what you think is fixed?
  
  How about version 5.0 that you can either get from unstable or
  http://mozilla.debian.net/ ?
 
 I am using Ubuntu on my laptop now... Is there a recommended way to
 install this package on Ubuntu?

You can check Ubuntu's firefox, there's not many reasons the behaviour
with html form input completion would be different.

Cheers,

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Bug#444499: field completion / suggestion often gets in the way

2010-02-19 Thread Frederik Eaton
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:48:21AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
 On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:57:02PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
  Thanks for the response. That's a very reasonable misunderstanding -
  Google has added completion to its search box since this bug was filed
  two years ago, and is therefore no longer a good way to reproduce the
  bug.
  
  ***
  
  I can still reproduce the bug in a plain HTML text input box under
  3.0.15. If you need an example of a plain HTML text input box, there
  is probably a more canonical one but ... here:
  http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1C/
 
 This gets more understandable, but for me (but under 3.5.6) the
 completion thing is not as annoying as you describe it. Could you give a
 try to the iceweasel version from squeeze ?

I'm sorry for the long delay in replying. I tried version 3.5.8 and
still found the same problems. Can you perhaps be more specific about
what you think is fixed?

Thank you,

Frederik



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Bug#444499: field completion / suggestion often gets in the way

2009-12-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 09:33:47AM +, Frederik Eaton wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 02:26:08AM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
  * Frederik Eaton (frede...@ofb.net) wrote:
   Package: iceweasel
   Version: 2.0.0.6-1
   Severity: normal
   
   Hello,
   
   I will give an example to illustrate my point. I have tried it out in
   safe mode.
   
   (1) I enter minimal entropy martingale measure in Google's search
   text box
   
   (2) When the results come up, I want change my search text to minimal
   martingale measure. I click just after the word entropy in the text
   box at the top of the results page, and the completion minimal
   entropy martingale measure appears appears in a menu below the box
   (even though that same string is also already in the box). (Actually,
   this happens only about 50% of the time, it may be necessary to try
   clicking at different parts of the word) Since I had to click on the
   search box to change the text, my cursor is right near the box. When I
   take my hand off the mouse to type, the cursor happens to move down a
   few pixels (this happens a lot when I use a trackpad, but also when I
   use my optical mouse), briefly crossing over the menu of completions.
   
   (3) This results in the single completion being highlighted. 
   Inexplicably, it stays highlighted even when my mouse has moved off of
   it to below the bottom of the menu. Even more strangely, it stays
   highlighted when I start typing in the text box.
   
   (4) I hit delete a few times to delete the word entropy, but the
   completion minimal martingale martingale measure, the text of my
   original search, is still highlighted.
   
   (5) I hit enter. This doesn't result in a new search with the new
   contents of the search box, as I had hoped; but it results in the
   completion (a useless completion, no less, since it was the original
   text of the box) being selected, and the edit I just made
   disappearing, and the text minimal martingale martingale measure
   returning to the search box, and no search happening.
   
   So, completion as implemented in this program (is it possible to turn
   it off, by the way?) is basically incompatible with my mouse moving
   down a few pixels after I take my hand off of it. That seems rather
   demanding - the mouse is an analog device and the cursor can't be
   expected to stay 100% still all the time. In general, it seems like a
   good idea for a highlighted menu selection to become unhighlighted
   when the user starts typing, even in the case where it is still under
   the cursor (which it is not, in my example above), since typing
   generally indicates a lack of intent to click.
   
   Thank you in advance - I hope that this can be eventually fixed...
  
  Is this any better with the latest Iceweasel?
 
 Hello,
 
 The problematic behaviour seems to be unchanged in 3.0.3.

As I fail to reproduce this in version 3.0.6 and I doubt the behaviour
changed since 3.0.3, I'm wondering if you're talking about the google
search box on the top right of the iceweasel user interface, or the
google search field on the google web page. If the latter, then this is
behavioural bug of the google web page.

Cheers,

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Bug#444499: field completion / suggestion often gets in the way

2009-12-21 Thread Frederik Eaton
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 05:13:45PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 09:33:47AM +, Frederik Eaton wrote:
  On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 02:26:08AM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
   * Frederik Eaton (frede...@ofb.net) wrote:
Package: iceweasel
Version: 2.0.0.6-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

I will give an example to illustrate my point. I have tried it out in
safe mode.

(1) I enter minimal entropy martingale measure in Google's search
text box

(2) When the results come up, I want change my search text to minimal
martingale measure. I click just after the word entropy in the text
box at the top of the results page, and the completion minimal
entropy martingale measure appears appears in a menu below the box
(even though that same string is also already in the box). (Actually,
this happens only about 50% of the time, it may be necessary to try
clicking at different parts of the word) Since I had to click on the
search box to change the text, my cursor is right near the box. When I
take my hand off the mouse to type, the cursor happens to move down a
few pixels (this happens a lot when I use a trackpad, but also when I
use my optical mouse), briefly crossing over the menu of completions.

(3) This results in the single completion being highlighted. 
Inexplicably, it stays highlighted even when my mouse has moved off of
it to below the bottom of the menu. Even more strangely, it stays
highlighted when I start typing in the text box.

(4) I hit delete a few times to delete the word entropy, but the
completion minimal martingale martingale measure, the text of my
original search, is still highlighted.

(5) I hit enter. This doesn't result in a new search with the new
contents of the search box, as I had hoped; but it results in the
completion (a useless completion, no less, since it was the original
text of the box) being selected, and the edit I just made
disappearing, and the text minimal martingale martingale measure
returning to the search box, and no search happening.

So, completion as implemented in this program (is it possible to turn
it off, by the way?) is basically incompatible with my mouse moving
down a few pixels after I take my hand off of it. That seems rather
demanding - the mouse is an analog device and the cursor can't be
expected to stay 100% still all the time. In general, it seems like a
good idea for a highlighted menu selection to become unhighlighted
when the user starts typing, even in the case where it is still under
the cursor (which it is not, in my example above), since typing
generally indicates a lack of intent to click.

Thank you in advance - I hope that this can be eventually fixed...
   
   Is this any better with the latest Iceweasel?
  
  Hello,
  
  The problematic behaviour seems to be unchanged in 3.0.3.
 
 As I fail to reproduce this in version 3.0.6 and I doubt the behaviour
 changed since 3.0.3, I'm wondering if you're talking about the google
 search box on the top right of the iceweasel user interface, or the
 google search field on the google web page. If the latter, then this is
 behavioural bug of the google web page.

Thanks for the response. That's a very reasonable misunderstanding -
Google has added completion to its search box since this bug was filed
two years ago, and is therefore no longer a good way to reproduce the
bug.

***

I can still reproduce the bug in a plain HTML text input box under
3.0.15. If you need an example of a plain HTML text input box, there
is probably a more canonical one but ... here:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1C/

These are the fixes which I suggest still need to be implemented:

1. Unhighlight completion menu selection when the mouse leaves the
menu rectangle

2. Unhighlight completion menu selection when user starts typing (e.g. 
delete key, as in above report)

3. Don't include completions which exactly match the text of the box

4. Don't list completions when the insertion point is not at the end
of the text. (This is already partially implemented - if I defocus the
box, and then click in the middle, no completion menu shows up. But if
I click at the end of the box to get a completion menu, and then click
in the middle without defocussing, the completion menu stays around)

5. Allow user to turn off completion (?)

Best wishes,

Frederik



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Bug#444499: field completion / suggestion often gets in the way

2009-12-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:57:02PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
 Thanks for the response. That's a very reasonable misunderstanding -
 Google has added completion to its search box since this bug was filed
 two years ago, and is therefore no longer a good way to reproduce the
 bug.
 
 ***
 
 I can still reproduce the bug in a plain HTML text input box under
 3.0.15. If you need an example of a plain HTML text input box, there
 is probably a more canonical one but ... here:
 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1C/

This gets more understandable, but for me (but under 3.5.6) the
completion thing is not as annoying as you describe it. Could you give a
try to the iceweasel version from squeeze ?

Thanks

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Bug#444499: field completion / suggestion often gets in the way

2008-11-09 Thread Frederik Eaton
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 02:26:08AM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
 * Frederik Eaton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
  Package: iceweasel
  Version: 2.0.0.6-1
  Severity: normal
  
  Hello,
  
  I will give an example to illustrate my point. I have tried it out in
  safe mode.
  
  (1) I enter minimal entropy martingale measure in Google's search
  text box
  
  (2) When the results come up, I want change my search text to minimal
  martingale measure. I click just after the word entropy in the text
  box at the top of the results page, and the completion minimal
  entropy martingale measure appears appears in a menu below the box
  (even though that same string is also already in the box). (Actually,
  this happens only about 50% of the time, it may be necessary to try
  clicking at different parts of the word) Since I had to click on the
  search box to change the text, my cursor is right near the box. When I
  take my hand off the mouse to type, the cursor happens to move down a
  few pixels (this happens a lot when I use a trackpad, but also when I
  use my optical mouse), briefly crossing over the menu of completions.
  
  (3) This results in the single completion being highlighted. 
  Inexplicably, it stays highlighted even when my mouse has moved off of
  it to below the bottom of the menu. Even more strangely, it stays
  highlighted when I start typing in the text box.
  
  (4) I hit delete a few times to delete the word entropy, but the
  completion minimal martingale martingale measure, the text of my
  original search, is still highlighted.
  
  (5) I hit enter. This doesn't result in a new search with the new
  contents of the search box, as I had hoped; but it results in the
  completion (a useless completion, no less, since it was the original
  text of the box) being selected, and the edit I just made
  disappearing, and the text minimal martingale martingale measure
  returning to the search box, and no search happening.
  
  So, completion as implemented in this program (is it possible to turn
  it off, by the way?) is basically incompatible with my mouse moving
  down a few pixels after I take my hand off of it. That seems rather
  demanding - the mouse is an analog device and the cursor can't be
  expected to stay 100% still all the time. In general, it seems like a
  good idea for a highlighted menu selection to become unhighlighted
  when the user starts typing, even in the case where it is still under
  the cursor (which it is not, in my example above), since typing
  generally indicates a lack of intent to click.
  
  Thank you in advance - I hope that this can be eventually fixed...
 
 Is this any better with the latest Iceweasel?

Hello,

The problematic behaviour seems to be unchanged in 3.0.3.

Thanks,

Frederik



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Bug#444499: field completion / suggestion often gets in the way

2008-11-08 Thread Eric Dorland
* Frederik Eaton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 Package: iceweasel
 Version: 2.0.0.6-1
 Severity: normal
 
 Hello,
 
 I will give an example to illustrate my point. I have tried it out in
 safe mode.
 
 (1) I enter minimal entropy martingale measure in Google's search
 text box
 
 (2) When the results come up, I want change my search text to minimal
 martingale measure. I click just after the word entropy in the text
 box at the top of the results page, and the completion minimal
 entropy martingale measure appears appears in a menu below the box
 (even though that same string is also already in the box). (Actually,
 this happens only about 50% of the time, it may be necessary to try
 clicking at different parts of the word) Since I had to click on the
 search box to change the text, my cursor is right near the box. When I
 take my hand off the mouse to type, the cursor happens to move down a
 few pixels (this happens a lot when I use a trackpad, but also when I
 use my optical mouse), briefly crossing over the menu of completions.
 
 (3) This results in the single completion being highlighted. 
 Inexplicably, it stays highlighted even when my mouse has moved off of
 it to below the bottom of the menu. Even more strangely, it stays
 highlighted when I start typing in the text box.
 
 (4) I hit delete a few times to delete the word entropy, but the
 completion minimal martingale martingale measure, the text of my
 original search, is still highlighted.
 
 (5) I hit enter. This doesn't result in a new search with the new
 contents of the search box, as I had hoped; but it results in the
 completion (a useless completion, no less, since it was the original
 text of the box) being selected, and the edit I just made
 disappearing, and the text minimal martingale martingale measure
 returning to the search box, and no search happening.
 
 So, completion as implemented in this program (is it possible to turn
 it off, by the way?) is basically incompatible with my mouse moving
 down a few pixels after I take my hand off of it. That seems rather
 demanding - the mouse is an analog device and the cursor can't be
 expected to stay 100% still all the time. In general, it seems like a
 good idea for a highlighted menu selection to become unhighlighted
 when the user starts typing, even in the case where it is still under
 the cursor (which it is not, in my example above), since typing
 generally indicates a lack of intent to click.
 
 Thank you in advance - I hope that this can be eventually fixed...

Is this any better with the latest Iceweasel?

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Bug#444499: field completion / suggestion often gets in the way

2007-09-29 Thread Frederik Eaton
Package: iceweasel
Version: 2.0.0.6-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

I will give an example to illustrate my point. I have tried it out in
safe mode.

(1) I enter minimal entropy martingale measure in Google's search
text box

(2) When the results come up, I want change my search text to minimal
martingale measure. I click just after the word entropy in the text
box at the top of the results page, and the completion minimal
entropy martingale measure appears appears in a menu below the box
(even though that same string is also already in the box). (Actually,
this happens only about 50% of the time, it may be necessary to try
clicking at different parts of the word) Since I had to click on the
search box to change the text, my cursor is right near the box. When I
take my hand off the mouse to type, the cursor happens to move down a
few pixels (this happens a lot when I use a trackpad, but also when I
use my optical mouse), briefly crossing over the menu of completions.

(3) This results in the single completion being highlighted. 
Inexplicably, it stays highlighted even when my mouse has moved off of
it to below the bottom of the menu. Even more strangely, it stays
highlighted when I start typing in the text box.

(4) I hit delete a few times to delete the word entropy, but the
completion minimal martingale martingale measure, the text of my
original search, is still highlighted.

(5) I hit enter. This doesn't result in a new search with the new
contents of the search box, as I had hoped; but it results in the
completion (a useless completion, no less, since it was the original
text of the box) being selected, and the edit I just made
disappearing, and the text minimal martingale martingale measure
returning to the search box, and no search happening.

So, completion as implemented in this program (is it possible to turn
it off, by the way?) is basically incompatible with my mouse moving
down a few pixels after I take my hand off of it. That seems rather
demanding - the mouse is an analog device and the cursor can't be
expected to stay 100% still all the time. In general, it seems like a
good idea for a highlighted menu selection to become unhighlighted
when the user starts typing, even in the case where it is still under
the cursor (which it is not, in my example above), since typing
generally indicates a lack of intent to click.

Thank you in advance - I hope that this can be eventually fixed...

Frederik

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
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Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
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ii  fontconfig  2.4.2-1.2generic font configuration library
ii  libatk1.0-0 1.18.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6   2.6.1-1  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2   1.4.10-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1  2.4.2-1.2generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype62.3.5-1+b1   FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1 1:4.2.1-4GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-02.14.0-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0 2.10.13-1The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhunspell-1.1-0   1.1.9-1  spell checker and morphological an
ii  libjpeg62   6b-13The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d 4.6.7-1  NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-0d  3.11.7-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0   1.16.5-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0  1.2.15~beta5-2   PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6  4.2.1-4  The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-62:1.0.3-7X11 client-side library
ii  libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama11:1.0.2-1X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxp6  1:1.0.0.xsf1-1   X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie
ii  libxrender1 1:0.9.2-1X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6  1:1.0.5-3X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  psmisc  22.5-1   Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  zlib1g  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

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