I've found the same situation on WinXP. I've had a bit more luck using "s" (for search), but I miss doing "g tab" search term. When I tried "Google", search wasn't even one of the options.
-Rick On Jun 26, 11:48 pm, Timur Izhbulatov <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/6/27 Brandon Pung <[email protected]>: > > > So it sounds like there are two things you were asking about here. First is > > that "goo" is returning "add to google calender" as the top suggestion > > instead of the verb "Google (search term)", when you would expect "Google > > (search term)" to be the top choice. Your second concern is that you can't > > tab to cycle through the suggestions. > > > For your first thing: I agree that "go" should have "Google (search term)" > > as the top suggestion. It seems to be a problem with case sensitivity. If > > you type "Go" then "Google (search term)" will be the top suggestion (at > > least it is for me). In fact, even just "G" is giving "Google" as the top > > choice, which is good. So we should make sure our matching to verbs is not > > being done with case senstivity, because I don't think it should care about > > the case of the letters here. Good catch! > > Hm... I have "google" in the suggestions, not "Google". > > Unfortunately, now I can't reproduce my issue with calendar reliably. > However, there are some things that I noticed: > * the problem appeared right after update > * there was only one browser window with many tabs > * there problem disappeared in new window > > I also tried unsubscribe/subscribe on the calendar command feed and > restarting the browser, but it didn't help to reproduce the problem. > > > For the second thing: We want to keep the behavior of tabs doing tab > > completion, instead of cycling through suggestions. Arrow keys seems like an > > intuitive way to go up and down between the different suggestions when the > > tab key is being used for auto-complete. If that doesn't sound right we're > > open to ideas. > > Thanks for the explanation. Now I agree that tab completion and > choosing from suggestions are different actions. I never had to cycle > through suggestions before I stumbled upon this issue. The problem was > that I got stuck at the top choice and completion didn't help to get > out, plus, the list of suggestions was rather odd. However, I > personally would prefer Ctrl+N/Ctrl+P instead of arrow keys. > > So, I think the main issue is the list of suggestions, which seems > rather confusing sometimes. For instance, when I type 'g', the 'get > weather' is the top suggestion and Tab does not change anything, so > that I have only what I already typed in the command line. But when I > type 'ge', 'search with Ubuntu Package Search' (one of my search > engines) is on the top and Tab changes my 'ge' to 'Ubuntu Package > Search'. > > > > > > > > > 2009/6/26 "mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine <[email protected]> > > >> The tab completion is a feature we hope to keep, but unfortunately as > >> you've discovered it is only functioning in limited circumstances > >> right now. However, in my testing the tab completion of command names > >> only should be working. If this is not the case for you, I'd love to > >> know. If the first suggestion is not the right verb you want, you can > >> arrow down to the righ verb and tab that one. > > >> mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) > > >> On Jun 26, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Timur Izhbulatov <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > > >> > Hi list, > > >> > Recently I've updated to the latest 0.5 beta and noticed a very > >> > significant change in the command completion. > > >> > Previously, to start a Google search I would just invoke Ubiquity, > >> > type 'goo' or even just 'go', then press Tab to complete the command, > >> > enter the query and press Enter. > > >> > But now, even when I've already typed 'goo', the first item in the > >> > suggestions lists is 'add to google calendar' and I can't just press > >> > Tab to cycle over suggestions and choose 'google'. I'm forced to use > >> > arrow keys instead. > > >> > In my opinion, this greatly reduces Ubiquity's usability and I would > >> > like to know if there is a way to change this behaviour. > > >> > Thanks, > >> > -- > >> > Timur Izhbulatov ―www.timka.org > > > -- > > Brandon James Pung > > Massachusetts Institute of Technology Class of 2010 > > Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science > > 828.777.8640 | [email protected] > > -- > Timur Izhbulatov —www.timka.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
