Hi James,

On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 2:51:29 pm James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote:

> [...]
>
> Tested on Fedora 20 on XO-4.
>
> The autocomplete of activity name in search entry (2ac6c3c) does work,
> though it can be disconcerting.  Perhaps it should mark the completion
> as selected text, so that further typing will erase it.  Be a slow
> typer and type "C l o c k" and you get "Clockock".
>

Hum, how slow is a slow typer?  I need to be typing at about 2 chars per
second, but what is it like on the XO4?

I don't think that selecting the text is the right approach.  If I am a
slow typer, I would appreciate the computer autocompleting me :)


>
> Busy cursor during activity launch doesn't appear to work.  There was
> no attempt to flush the display.  No idea if there was a ticket for
> this, it isn't mentioned in the commit:
>
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/commit/6c8141ba9994d8ec1f5e29d5ec7e39
> 34091636ee
>
> Can be fixed by using the technique in the following commit:
>
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/commit/726aaeeff70848b7f31c7ae6e4392a
> 4d49f2d7d1
>
> I'm not touching it for a few days in case GCI team want to take it
> on.
>

Good catch!  I have made a patch
https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/475

Thanks,
Sam
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