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 +0000, 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 done yet (is this correct?). The others are low-priority. Thanks, Frederik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
